J wrote in news:f8c778c3-549e-4768-9c67-bd8f75feab90
@o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:

On Feb 22, 10:47*am, Mike wrote:
Inside the Navy - 2/22/2010
Navy doesn¹t expect schedule delay
Official: Navy JSF Variant To Go Offline For A Month For Design Fixes
The Navy¹s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter carrier variant will be taken
offline "for about a month" to put design fixes in after problems with
load transfers during launch were discovered last year, but it will

For us ignorant civilians who subscribe to SMN, what does "problems
with
load transfers during launch" mean?

Thanks . . . J

Sitting there, the loads result from forces due basically to 1G down.
During the shot, the loads are different and occur over different
paths in the airframe. So things that are lightly stressed just
sitting are now moderately highly loaded.

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