If you could reintroduce into service an upgraded new build of a proven design.
I have been thinking of this for a while, with the throw away world we live in and the next new thing attitude.. and with the Twin Otter, a 60's design being put back into production, simply because it excels at what it does and the best thing to replace a Twotter with is another Twotter
With the likes of the Hunter still hanging on in there with FRADU, Canberra's still operating, all be it highly modified with NASA,
What aircraft from recent history, ( say post war ) if updated and built new, say utilising say some Carbon Fibre and modern structures in it's construction, modern avionics, systems and modern more efficent engines, would you think would still be viable in the world of today? And why?
After all, simply because it is new does not necessarily mean it is better than those that came before..
The ones I thought of were
The Hunter
The Buccaneer
The Caribou
The Canberra