Originally Posted by
con-pilot
Very true, years ago, very many years ago, I read an article in the 'Tinker Takeoff' (yes Tinker AFB has its own newspaper) about a B-52 that had just come out of a major overhaul/upgrade and the only piece of original equipment/part in the aircraft was the co-pilot's left rudder peddle.
Everything else, including the aircraft skin had been replaced over the years since this particular B-52 rolled off the Boeing assembly line.
Would be really neat to be in the component business for those babies that's for sure...