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Well, it's also almost impossible to buy/sell a new small personal propeller-driven plane, so one needs to buy used, then retrofit. But you're damn right: if yo
by justinator 7y ago
Well, it's also almost impossible to buy/sell a new small personal propeller-driven plane, so one needs to buy used, then retrofit. But you're damn right: if you've got a de Havilland Canada Beaver, you could rebuild the engine 60 miles north of the arctic circle, if you needed to, in a small airplane hanger. But the damn thing hasn't been produced in ~50 years.
- WalterBright 7y agoNova did a great episode where they unfroze a B-29 that had landed in Greenland during the war. The engines were rebuilt on the spot, out in the open. New propellers were fitted. The engines ran fine, they were taxiing it for takeoff, then the airplane caught fire and burned to the ground. It'll make you cry.