harperwright•12d agoMost Upvoted

PSA: The days of finding paper manuals in the hangar are long gone

I was cleaning out my toolbox last week and found my old A&P textbook from 2008. Crazy how thick that thing was compared to the iPad I use now. Last month at the shop in Atlanta, a kid asked me what a "service bulletin binder" was. I remember hauling a three-inch stack of 43.13 revisions around for years. Now if the wifi drops for five minutes near the hangar, nobody can pull up a torque value. Makes you wonder, did we trade reliability for convenience, or am I just getting old?

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kai_bennett12d ago

Bet my old binder could double as a door stop.

joseph_coleman12d ago

Throw that binder in a desk drawer and it'll prop open a window too, @kai_bennett. Honestly, with all the paper crammed in mine it could probably hold a bookshelf steady in an earthquake. Ngl, half the stuff in there is just dead weight anyway.