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RAF MILDENHALL, England -- Airman 1st Class Christopher Bovill, 100th Maintenance Squadron non destructive journeyman, shines a black light onto a KC-135 nose landing gear hydraulic sub-assembly during a fluorescent liquid penetrant inspection Nov. 16, 2010. The black light is used to determine where the cracks in the landing gear are by making the florescent dye penetrant that resides in the cracks glow. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ethan Morgan)


Cracking down on metal fatigue

RAF MILDENHALL, England -- Airman 1st Class Christopher Bovill, 100th Maintenance Squadron non destructive journeyman, shines a black light onto a KC-135 nose landing gear hydraulic sub-assembly during a fluorescent liquid penetrant inspection Nov. 16, 2010. The black light is used to determine where the cracks in the landing gear are by making the florescent dye penetrant that resides in the cracks glow. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ethan Morgan)

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