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I just hit 1000 continuity checks on the same old King Air
It's a 1978 model, and I swear every single wire in that harness is held together by hopes and prayers at this point. I mean, I found a splice wrapped in what looked like a piece of a grocery bag from 1995. Anyone else have a plane that just seems to be a never-ending source of these weird, ancient fixes?
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jenkins.reese1mo ago
That "grocery bag from 1995" line got me. I used to think finding those old fixes meant the last guy was lazy. Now I see it differently. You open up a panel on a plane that old and you're not just fixing a wire, you're dealing with the history of every quick decision made to keep it flying for another day. It changes how you see the whole machine.
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the_mila1mo ago
That history is just a nice word for a pile of bad choices. It's not respect, it's what you're stuck fixing.
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sam_thomas1mo agoMost Upvoted
Wait, planes from 1995 are still flying?
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