your right about the Tomcat---can't understand what they were thinking-but
as I have said before---if that can keep alomst 50 year old B-52's
flying --they can certainly do it for the Tomcat.......


Different animals, different life expectances. The Buff, for all its
longevity, doesn't do its craft at 7-10G on a typical day. It also isn't
subjected to routine impacts with steel objects, or to months of salt water
mist at a time. If you want something to last fifty years AND compete as a
front line tactical aircraft, don't land it on a carrier. Two out of three
ain't bad.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.