You should watvh the Barret Jackson auctions, a very popular trend lately is taking any vlassic car, it can be a 1940 Cadillac, a 59 Corvette or even an old mail truck and retro modfing it with modern powerplants and electronics.
Who was that novelist, Tom Clancy? Wrote about a modified swept composite winged B52 Megafortress? About 15 years ago i think.
Dale brown wrote that in flight of the old dog.. And the cost to keep a buff flying is pretty cheap compared to other airframes and has a better mission capable rate
-You should watvh the Barret Jackson auctions, a very popular trend lately is taking any vlassic car, it can be a 1940 Cadillac, a 59 Corvette or even an old mail truck and retro modfing it with modern powerplants and electronics.-
The wiring on older planes can weigh hundreds of pounds and is built into the air frame. It is not replaceable without completely rebuilding the plane. You have to route a new wire.
I suspect that newer aircraft have a data bus and do not suffer from this issue.
The author was Dale Brown