Consumer-grade MLC flash memory are used in theSkyhawk by creating controller technology that can increase the effective endurance life-time of the flash memory cells.
McCain, who survived two plane crashes and a massive fire aboard the USS Forrestal before his A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, said he had not given much thought to the possibility of threats to his life as a high-profile presidential candidate.