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The most terrible reality is that the capability for tracking virtually all long-haul airframes (99.999%) already exists.

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The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).

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noun

The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).

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Core meanings and parts of speech for airframes.

noun

The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).

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The most terrible reality is that the capability for tracking virtually all long-haul airframes (99.999%) already exists.

Also, unpiloted fighter jets are almost inevitable, simply because modern airframes can pull more Gs than pilots can stand.

This was later found to be due to catastrophic metal fatigue in the airframes, not well understood at the time.

It might have been far more expensive, both in development and operational costs, to develop separate airframes for the various roles.

Many of the older airframes in use have seen multiple systems upgrades to modernize them.

Considering Boeing said no airframes even came close to 248 days uptime, I would consider this a non-issue.

It should have been two (or even three) different airframes sharing engines, electronics.

No, for much the same reason that in, say, 1945 they weren't using any airframes that had been in service for 50+ years.

Fasteners are a big deal in airframes - in order to be light enough to fly, they have to have stressed skin construction.

There is hope that these next gen airframes and engines will lead to personal two and four seaters with mpg on par with sedans.

The plane would most likely rip apart long before hitting said target, Mach 5 at Sea level does not do good things to airframes.

Really, the biggest problem with the A-10 right now is that the airframes are getting old, but that's a problem with our entire aircraft inventory.

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If "old wiring" is the reason to mothball the A10 (yet again) then why is the B52 fleet being kept in service for a planned 95 year lifetime on the oldest airframes?

The big thing those airframes are missing (except for the helos and AC-130) is loiter time and cannons that go "brrrpt", but neither of those are so critical to CAS as is popularly implied.

The article title refers to a "plane engine" not a "plane." There is a huge difference: the passenger plane airframes everyone knows and flies on are made by totally separate companies (Airbus, Boeing) from the engines (Rolls Royce, GE, Pratt & Whitney).