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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

USAF-Boeing-Pratt&Whitney X-51 Flight Control Failure?

The first substantial reports from yesterday's mach-6 attempt point at a flight control structural failure as the cause of a lost X-51.  So far I haven't seen anything official from USAF.  Leave it to AvWeek to have the first snippet of information.

http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A364ef945-4d56-499f-9359-f205eca3e0bf

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