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US Air Force is planning to modernize the A-10s

Washington, Usa - They aircraft's wings will be replaced is order to extend its operational until 2028

The US Air Force is planning the replacement of the wings of its oldest airplanes A-10, in order to extend the operational of its fleet of 365 aircraft until 2028. The A-10 in fact is a plane that has been initially thought for a 6000-flight-hours-life, later extended up to 8000, but the current fleet has arrived to 9000. It had been built 751 models in all the world of A-10, the distributed to US...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 148450
Rome, Italy, 09/07/2006 20:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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