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F-35 Features Potential For Over-Pressurized Fuel Tanks

Pat Host

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

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F-35 Features Potential For Over-Pressurized Fuel Tanks

The Air Force's F-35A conventional variant. Photo: Air Force.

The Defense Department last week took a step toward fixing a F-35 fuel system issue first discovered in late 2014.F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) spokesman Joe DellaVedova said Thursday in an email that a “low-probability” potential for air in the F-35 fuel system to over-pressurize the fuel tanks beyond design limits was discovered in late 2014 during lightning protection qualification and was confirmed via flight test in early 2015. He said Tuesday if air in the fuel system over-pressurized to…

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