{"id":198206,"date":"2007-12-02T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/02\/usaf-is-claiming-that-f-15s-have-a-design-weakness-so-we-need-more-f-22s\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T02:37:00","slug":"usaf-is-claiming-that-f-15s-have-a-design-weakness-so-we-need-more-f-22s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/02\/usaf-is-claiming-that-f-15s-have-a-design-weakness-so-we-need-more-f-22s\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF is Claiming That F-15s Have a Design Weakness, So We Need More F-22s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged weakness appears to relate to potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/30\/219948\/usaf-f-15s-risk-catastrophic-design-weakness.html\">potential failure of the F-15\u2019s upper longerons near the canopy seal<\/a>, basically the keel beams.<\/p>\n<p>It may be true.  It&#8217;s also likely that it can be fixed with a doubler relatively simply, but the USAF, in it&#8217;s never ending quest for more white elephants known as the F-22, is not going to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged weakness appears to relate to potential potential failure of the F-15\u2019s upper longerons near the canopy seal, basically the keel beams. It may be true. It&#8217;s also likely that it can be fixed with a doubler relatively simply, but the USAF, in it&#8217;s never ending quest for more white elephants known as 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":[1007,1008,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198206"}],"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=198206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}