So what you’re telling me is that if I buy one of these fancy new composite airframes, I’m literally getting a disposable product with a finite/defined max life.
No more 1950s airframe with 33,000+ TT on it.
Pretty much as I understand it. The only way to check carbon fiber is to cut it up and look at it which of course destroys its functionality. They find out how many cycles before cracks start showing up.