[QUOTE=RayvenQ;32359644]That's assuming the new, correct part is still being produced 50 years later.[/QUOTE]
Then you just get the part custom made somewhere else using the original specifications. That's why old planes are expensive as hell to maintain.
[QUOTE=mac338;32354015]Everything wears down over time, no matter how well you maintain it.
[B]MANY DUMBS LATER:[/B]
Alright, my mistake. But having to much pride of accept that I am wrong, I ask you this, sir; do atoms not decay?
Within eight hundred billion billion years, will the plane not have worn down?[/QUOTE]
I think the definition of the word maintenance may have gone over your head.
AK-47s are more than sixty years old, and they work fine. The [i]design[/i] of the plane is from the 40s. The parts are just as new as with any other plane.
thirds time the charm right?
[QUOTE=CptVague;32355872]Yeah, jet engines.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262[/url]
"The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work started before World War II began"
[QUOTE=Maximo13;32362476][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262[/url]
"The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work started before World War II began"[/QUOTE]
5 minutes in IL-2 games will tell you that the engines tended to explode if you looked at them too quickly.
[QUOTE=CptVague;32355872]Yeah, jet engines.[/QUOTE]
actually most stunt planes are still propeller-driven.
lerp
Oh god not another one!
Wondering if I'll be the last generation to see these babies still flying :/
heart goes out to the families that have lost someone at airshows recently :9
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