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A buddy always laughed at the industry when he’d see these things on the ramp, he always says he wants to talk to the engineers of something like the cessna 152 just to see the look on their face when they learn that little guy made in 1965 is STILL flown as a daily flight trainer almost 3/4s of a century later. And those are actually somewhat safe, if you want REAL nightmares, there are more than a few twins that really show their age w/ exhaust routing accelerating corrosion on their own spars. (That’s why the old 310s are so cheap, they’re deadly)

Imagine a VW beetle being used that long. Driven every day, all day from sunup to sundown. Now imagine it’s parked on the florida coast. People don’t think about planes the same way, for whatever reason. YOu have 100-hr inspections done that will catch a whole lot of problems (cessna’s better for this than piper, from what I gather) but not every aircraft was designed to be flayed open and inspected to that degree. Why design an easy system to inspect the main spar when all your life as a plane drafter has seen your designs end up in a junkyard within 20 years no matter how advanced you make them?

They never knew they were making infrastructure we’d be using for 100 years without replacement. https://youtu.be/KmlXj6NFKIs

RT: https://poa.st/objects/bdecda3c-49c5-4753-9417-00b844f364a9

🎊🎆🎊 In celebration 🎊🎇🎊
of America running out of Afghanistan and subsequently getting cucked by the Taliban, I will be posting, here on merovingian, a thread of memes that I stole from Taliban twitter accounts in 2021, which celebrated America's defeat. These are historical artifacts and an important part of internet lore.

Inshallah.

As evil as this world is, it does have it's moments.

A conscious / humanity isn't always a weakness.

Be nicer to each other, or whatever.