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Saw a jet at the Tucson boneyard with its avionics bays ripped open and it got me thinking about how we label wiring
I was down in Tucson two weeks ago visiting a buddy who works at the aircraft storage facility out there, and he walked me past a row of retired regional jets. One of them had all the avionics bay doors open, and you could see the wire bundles just hanging there, every harness tagged with those old paper labels that were half faded or gone. I've been doing avionics for 11 years, mostly on King Airs and Caravans, and I've never once thought about what happens to a plane's wiring after we're done with it. Standing there looking at 40 year old routing that some guy like me did back when I was a kid, I kept wondering if he double checked his work or just wanted to get to lunch. The thing that really got me was how clean it still was, no chafing, no corrosion I could see, just good solid work from somebody who probably never got a thank you. My buddy says they pull a lot of those harnesses for reuse and the labels are the first thing to fail, which makes me think we should all be using better tagging. What are you guys using for labels these days? I'm still on the plastic sleeve printer and I'm starting to wonder if I'm behind the times.
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noahwood1mo ago
Man, nobody ever talks about the guy whose wiring outlives him, that's the real legacy nobody sees.
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