
The Navy and Marine Corps said they are replacing a potentially defective part used in pilot ejection in some planes like Super Hornets and training aircraft and grounding some planes as part of the process. The Navy was notified of a potential defect on the cartridge actuated devices (CAD) in some fixed-wing aircraft by the vendor, Martin Baker. The service said it used “validated radiography procedures” to scan on-hand inventory to verify replacement CAD parts were made correctly before starting…