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(B2431) wrote:

It sort of makes one wonder if the guys who designed the F-4 might have hated
maintenance types.

The F-4E was the only aircraft I ever worked on that one had to disassemble a
circuit breaker panel and dismount a rudder peddle just to change the battery.

There were all sorts of fun little things like that. The ALR-46 system
was an afterthought, as far as anyone could tell, and we had crap all
*over* those planes.

And yes, a couple of our control panels had to come out when they
changed that &$#%! battery...

Derigging the ailerons to remove engines was another smooth design.

There was one splice area for ECM that you could only get to by pulling
the left engine. *Nobody* would authorize removing the engine just to
get to it, so it became a "whenever" job.

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