Thanks Bryan for the link.
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via Stars and Stripes.
As a buddy said, when they apply these surfaces they're suppose to last for more than a minute before you have to replace them.....and thats why I SUSPECT that this has something to do with an experimental formula for the super hot burning engines on the F-35 and MV-22.
Time will tell.
via Stars and Stripes.
SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan – The USS Bonhomme Richard will likely miss its next underway deployment after a botched $3 million resurfacing of the amphibious assault ship’s flight deck.I could easily be wrong but I'm thinking that the new surface designed to accommodate the F-35 is turning out to be less than optimal.
The ship had undergone the resurfacing less than a month ago.
“A recent application of non-skid coating on the flight deck of the USS Bonhomme Richard was not up to Navy safety standards and is being reapplied,” Cmdr. William Marks, spokesman for 7th Fleet, said in an email to Stars and Stripes. “This will cause an increase in port time and decrease in underway days for Bonhomme Richard.”
An “accidental gouging” of the flight deck on Aug. 8 led to a visual inspection, during which time officials from Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center Detachment Sasebo saw the non-skid surface was flaking.
Further testing confirmed the nonskid material had not set properly, making the surface unsafe for flight operations, something preliminary quality-assurance testing didn’t indicate, Marks said.
The problem was immediately reported to Naval Surface Forces Pacific.
As a buddy said, when they apply these surfaces they're suppose to last for more than a minute before you have to replace them.....and thats why I SUSPECT that this has something to do with an experimental formula for the super hot burning engines on the F-35 and MV-22.
Time will tell.
