Miles determines that an Augmentor user will fry their nervous system in 20 minutes, but Drew s dad would be dead in only five.
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About 30 jets, the equivalent of an entire squadron, have been grounded at Luke until the augmentor ducts and turbine parts can be replaced.
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Less than half of the aircraft was recovered, and a Navy accident report listed the stabilizer augmentor among " key items missing ."
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Although the Sept . 20th crash is still under investigation, it appears to have been caused by an electrical system malfunction, not the augmentor duct.
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Using an enhanced dye and blacklight provided by the Pentagon, maintenance inspectors were able to spot hairline fractures in 17 of the Pratt and Whitney 220 augmentor ducts.
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Now, officials say at least three parts of the F-16 engines should be replaced _ the augmentor ducts, low-pressure turbines and fan disks.
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May said 60 augmentor ducts should be ready by late summer, but it may take four years to manufacture and replace the ducts across the Air Force fleet.
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But Robert May, the Air Force's propulsion product group manager, doesn't expect the base to receive any new augmentor ducts until next spring.
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No cause was ever determined, but a Daily News examination found that mechanics had detected problems with the plane's stabilizer augmentor eight days before the crash.
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At the time of the crash, McNally's plane had flown 5.1 hours since the test flight in which mechanics found problems with the stabilizer augmentor.
