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> Engineers design pickle forks to last the lifetime of the plane, more than 90,000 landings and takeoffs, a term known as "flight cycles" in the aviation industry, without developing cracks.

That number made me do a double take. Seems planes never stay on the ground for very long.

parent alan5 7 years ago

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