Audit: Paint stripped too often from Hill F-16s
Inspectors from the U.S. Air Force Audit Agency found that F-16s at Hill Air Force Base were stripped and repainted so often that “the structural integrity of the aircraft may have been compromised.”
Hill officials countered that recent studies have shown the stripping process, which uses a high-powered stream of small, soft plastic beads, is safer than inspectors assume.
The Agency fount that the planes were stripped and repainted every time during scheduled maintenance because customer wings “wanted aircraft to look new when they returned.”
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