Air Force to withhold some F-22 funds from Lockheed
Published: Thu Jul 13th, 2006Source: www.ajc.com
The Air Force has decided to withhold up to $57 million to pay for inspections of 48 F-22A Raptor fighters with flaws in a portion of their airframes."Contractually, it is within their right to do so," said Joe Quimby, a Lockheed Martin spokesman in Marietta, where the F-22s are built. "There is no degradation of the expected service life of the F-22. There was never a safety of flight risk associated with this problem."
Lockheed officials said in December that a subcontractor failed to properly heat a portion of the titanium airframes on 48 jets — a flaw that could lead to cracking. The Air Force said Wednesday it will withhold $250,000 to $1.2 million per plane.
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