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Don't industries that require high levels of reliability schedule replacement of aging equipment, rather than continued repairs to keep old equipment running?
by NPMaxwell 9y ago
Don't industries that require high levels of reliability schedule replacement of aging equipment, rather than continued repairs to keep old equipment running?
- ams6110 9y agoNot really in aviation. Even commercial airliners are often decades old (and as a passenger, you can't really tell unless you know what to look for). They do reach a point where replacement with newer technology makes economic sense, but they can basically be maintained indefinitely.
- slavak 9y agoThat's not entirely accurate. Pressurized aircraft hulls are limited by the total number of pressurization cycles they can be subjected to. Everything else is repaired, overhauled, or replaced, but a total overhaul of an airliner haul is just not economically feasible, so at that point the entire aircraft is basically scrapped.