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Old Mar 7, 2019, 10:29 pm
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Originally Posted by visitor


$200 on an airplane gets you very little I’m afraid. Multiply by 10 at least...
I believe Ben Lipsey once said the curtain between J and Y cost something like $40k.

I can't imagine any kind of electromechanical device is going to be cheap.

Either way, I don't expect AC to have to pay for all this.

I'm more curious whether this is something that is literally a 15-minute swap, such that a large maintenance crew could do an entire aircraft during a typical turn.
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