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I was at the Pima Air and Space Museum last weekend and saw something in the old avionics bay that made me think
They have a B-52 cockpit section you can walk through, and I was looking at the old analog instrument panel. It's wild to see how much wiring and how many individual gauges they had to manage, all for systems we'd now handle with a few digital displays. It really hit me how far the tech has come, but also how the basic idea of routing signals and keeping things powered is still the same job. Has anyone else been to a museum lately and noticed something that made you appreciate the modern stuff we work on?
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ericfox6mo ago
That wiring looked like a spaghetti monster's bad day.
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jadel656mo ago
Cable ties and a label maker saved my sanity with a similar mess.
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white.alex5mo ago
Cable ties are a lifesaver for sure. I had the same exact feeling last year when I walked through the cockpit of an old C-130 at the Air Force museum. Seeing all those massive bundles of wire running behind the panels, it felt like looking at a city's worth of phone lines. Then you think about how today a single digital box handles all that with way less weight and power draw. Makes you respect the guys who had to troubleshoot that stuff back in the day.
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