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by justinclift 778 days ago
Yeah, that might have been his point.

That being said, as far as I know the FAA standards aren't really military standards.

Doing some quick searching shows this which seems relevant:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12401/how-much-...

So just because something meets a particular level of FAA compliance doesn't really speak to whether they'd work properly on the example "fighter jet" (potentially needing much higher performance).

Sounds like the guy was trying to do a populist pulpit style smoke-and-mirrors kind of thing?

Though if you can follow up and get the details of what type of fighter jet, and what type of bushings he meant (good luck with that! ;>) maybe that guy will turn out to be the first politician in history that's not completely full of crap. :D