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Stood in a museum hangar in Dayton last month and saw the exact wiring bundle that's been giving me fits for 3 years
I took a couple days off and drove up to the Air Force museum in Dayton, mostly just to walk around and clear my head. There's a hangar there with an old bomber cut open so you can see inside the fuselage, and I stood there for maybe 20 minutes staring at the wire runs along the bulkhead. Grounds bundled separate from power, every run laced and tied at even spacing, labels every few feet, service loops left where a connector could ever need to move. It hit me that half my sign-off headaches come from guys who treat wire routing like it's just getting the electrons from A to B. I've spent 3 years chasing an intermittent fault that ended up being a chafed run where somebody zip tied a bundle way too tight across a rib. Seeing how careful those old builds were, with way less tech than we have now, made me feel kind of lazy about my own routing habits. I re-did my last three harness tie-downs this week with actual spacing and service loops, and the job looks like a different person did it. Anyone else pick up a habit from looking at old airframe work, or am I the only one who geeks out in museums on their day off?
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