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Navy Issues Inspection Bulletin For Hornets After Discovery of Cracks

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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein For the second time in almost 10 months, the Navy has issued an inspection bulletin for the F/A-18A-D Hornet fleet, this time for cracks discovered in some horizontal stabilator actuator support fittings, known as bootstraps, the service said. The Navy issued the inspection bulletin for all 566 legacy Hornet aircraft last Friday after discovery of cracks during recent high flight hour inspections, Lt. Clayton Doss, Navy spokesman, said on Monday. "We issued the bulletin as a precautionary,…

Congress

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