Originally Posted by
Grumble
Superhornet has folding wings, lives and operates in a salt air environment, and sees 7.5 G’s on a regular basis. Never had one fail on me, never even heard of one failing.
Not a Boeing fan boy, but it’s not exactly a complicated system and they’ve been building them for decades.
Boeing went with the Vought Corsair folding wing design since it was older and “proven”