I used to think the Pima Air & Space Museum was just for tourists

I mean, I visited last month and they have a whole B-52D with the maintenance panels open. You can see the original hydraulic lines and the way they routed the cables around the bomb bay. It made me realize how much you can learn from a static display if you look past the shiny paint. Has anyone else found a museum exhibit that actually showed you something useful about a real system?

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victor_jones9914d agoTop Commenter

Ever check out the engine bay on the F-4 at the USAF Museum? They left the access panels off one side so you can see how they crammed all that wiring in. Makes the diagrams in the tech manuals actually make sense.

umar5914d ago

Actually seeing the real wiring just shows how messy it gets. The diagrams are a clean idea, but reality is a tangled nightmare. Those tech manuals are basically wishful thinking.

davis.ruby12d ago

My buddy's an electrician and he says those clean diagrams are basically a LIE until you see the actual rat's nest.