{"id":196799,"date":"2008-03-24T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/24\/israels-newest-f-16s-grounded-on-formaldehyde-concerns\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:57:00","slug":"israels-newest-f-16s-grounded-on-formaldehyde-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/24\/israels-newest-f-16s-grounded-on-formaldehyde-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Newest F-16s Grounded on Formaldehyde Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/21\/222425\/cancer-causing-substance-halts-f-16i-training-flights.html\">High levels of Formaldehyde have been found in the cockpits&#8217; of F-16I&#8217;ss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The F-16 I (see picture below), is a variant unique to the IAF, with conformal tanks and a spine for additional avionics, and given the IAF&#8217;s specific needs, it likely has an air conditioning system tailored to this equipment, which is likely the source of the contamination.<\/p>\n<p>It could come from combustion, but the path from combustor to cockpit would be unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img408.imageshack.us\/img408\/5206\/f16i5dx7.jpg\"; width=500\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High levels of Formaldehyde have been found in the cockpits&#8217; of F-16I&#8217;ss. The F-16 I (see picture below), is a variant unique to the IAF, with conformal tanks and a spine for additional avionics, and given the IAF&#8217;s specific needs, it likely has an air conditioning system tailored to this equipment, which is likely the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}