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Old November 30th 13, 06:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
son_of_flubber
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Default Glider Design Life

The other terms of interest are "Service Life", "Actual Approved Operating Life", "Extensions", and "Service Life Extensions" and the relation of those terms to each other and "Design Life".

I will defer to those more knowledgeable except to say that "everything eventually wears out, gets old, and breaks" and that sometimes more is known and/or declared about that inevitable progression.