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Location: SW Cheese Country
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There isn't much on google as to why lithium is used in the alloy.
Titanium does not like to be quenched in water that has any chlorine or fluorine because it turns brittle.
It is used on the ailerons and slats, it doesn't have thrust vectoring. The canards are just titanium.
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