CRASH PROGRAM
Northrop Grumman suffers a black eye for the Global Hawk that crashed in the United Arab Emirates this year. It turns out a bolt had been installed backward during manufacturing, according to Air Force officials. The error led to a failure of a rod that moved one of the V-tail control surfaces. The...
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