Structural Flaws May Ground Older F-15s Indefinitely
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Air Force inspectors have discovered major structural flaws in eight older-model F-15 fighters, sparking a new round of examinations that could ground all of the older jets into January or beyond, senior Air Force and defense officials said.
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The Federal Highway Administration told state authorities to take a new look at bridges to make sure they do not have the kind of design flaw that doomed the I-35W bridge, which collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
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U.S. passenger and cargo airlines on   Tuesday sought to stop, or at least change, a Federal Aviation   Administration proposal to overhaul management of structural   fatigue in older aircraft.
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MOSCOW - Officials investigating Tuesday&#39;s twin plane crashes in Russia said they were looking into the condition of the two doomed aircraft, the type of fuel used, weather conditions and pilot error.
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Concerns arise that the massive bomb-resistant vehicles may not be practical outside Iraq.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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ANNISTON, Ala. -- Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.
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There are no bodies here &#151; just rusting chunks of steel twisted like ribbons, crushed cars and burned-out elevator motors. Off a service road at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a hangar that once housed Tower Air is now a gigantic graveyard for what's left of the twin towers.
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An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack in an airplane wing while in-flight.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.'s LMT.N F-35   Joint Strike Fighter, funded by the United States and eight   other countries, initially could cost another $12 million to   $16 million apiece if production is curtailed in early years,   the project's top general said on Friday.
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Aging concrete -- not a structural defect at 90-year-old Wrigley Field -- caused three incidents of falling concrete over a six-week period, Cubs&#39; engineers concluded Monday, recommending that safety nets remain in place for the 2005 season and beyond.
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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NASA said Friday that cracks have been found in the insulation of all three space shuttle fuel tanks slated to fly in coming months and could be the reason a chunk of foam debris broke off during Endeavour's launch.
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Blog: Glaskowsky explains the difference between design flaws and defects.
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The view from the Airbus cockpit turned darker when its managers said the European plane-maker might take 15 years to catch up with Boeing and that the A350 project might be suspended.