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veen  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Every 4,700 hours in a U-2's life...

I can't imagine the level of detail and scrutiny that the airplane design must have gone through.

If I recall the lecture I had on aircraft maintenence well, regular aircraft are taken apart (D-check) every ~40k flight hours, which they accumulate in 6-8 years.