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COLUMBIA AIRFRAME OUTLASTS STEEL FATIGUE TESTING STRUCTURE
Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corp. announced that one of its Columbia airframes has absorbed the equivalent of 25,000 flight hours of punishment in fatigue testing. The company deliberately inflicted one of its airframes with 100 damage sites and placed it in fatigue testing. The tests were stopped when the steel fatigue testing structure, which is used to bounce and bend the airframe, began to have metal failure.
Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corp. announced that one of its Columbia airframes has absorbed the equivalent of 25,000 flight hours of punishment in fatigue testing. The company deliberately inflicted one of its airframes with 100 damage sites and placed it in fatigue testing. The tests were stopped when the steel fatigue testing structure, which is used to bounce and bend the airframe, began to have metal failure.