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To: fidelis

An old airframe is safe if properly maintained. A newer airframe not properly maintained is not safe.


41 posted on 09/18/2022 2:13:57 PM PDT by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
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To: cpdiii

I’d fly it as long as it didn’t do duty in Hawaii. The short hauls really stack up the pressure cycles on the skin. It was about 1984, I think when the roof blew off Aloha (I think) airlines and they lost an attendant in the Pacific. Turns out the pressure cycles are more controlling than the T/O’s, landings and air time. As I recall the plane had only something like 10,000 hours but had 30,000 take offs?


45 posted on 09/18/2022 2:39:31 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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