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Putting the Fight Bank in the F-5

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The call to Northrop Grumman Corporation's F-5 program management team came not long after the company won the contract to provide depot-level maintenance for the U.S. Navy's fleet of the twin-engine light attack aircraft in 1999. Northrop Grumman structural engineers had refined the algorithms used to calculate the fatigue life of the F-5E, also known as the Tiger II, and they had discovered that the airframes of the supersonic fighter were a lot farther along in their service lives than anyone had realized.

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