Hi all
Sometimes I wonder if those aircraft are over-maintained. After all,virtually all of them have been rebuilt with modern materials. There should be no reason why one couldn't operate them in a modern fashion,ie; leave out the excessive fettling and just fly them and fix what's actually broken,using an intelligent modern maintenance schedule. Perhaps people need to have a little more faith in aluminium and steel and a little less obsession with analysing everything to death.I can understand minding the engine carefully but surely there's scope for a bit more flexibility.
regards
TDD