It's amazing to look at old-timey black & white videos of airplanes & realize in many cases the literal same plane is still out there flying
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You can look at photos of vintage Cadillacs in Havana or you can just look up in the skies in most cities and see a similar vintage vehicle.
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And yet we are currently in the midst of one of one biggest explosions of innovation in aviation and aircraft design since the 50s.
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Until very recently, the radio method for communicating with a 747 was telnet.
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Also, the printed documentation for a 747 weighs more than a 747
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One of many examples: the de Havilland Beaver ('48-67), used by all the local operations (
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Those cadillacs are pure shell. Literally everything inside is cobbled together from elsewhere. Replacement parts dong get to Cuba.
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