Toured the old Pan Am hangar at the Miami airport museum and the wiring bundles in the cockpit mock-up were a total trip

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Yeah, those old wiring harnesses are a nightmare. Just bundles of identical wires with tiny number tags. Good luck tracing a single circuit without the manual. Modern planes use color coding and connectors everywhere. Makes troubleshooting way faster.

umabailey1mo ago

Tracing a single circuit in that mess sounds like a full time job. I bet the manual was just a huge binder of blurry photocopies too. They probably needed three people just to find the right page.