Very cool and depressing article on aerospace forges

[TommyGunn]

Some years back I flew on a Zambia Airways 737 from Harare to Lusaka. Overhead bins were held shut with duct tape, you could see the decking through holes worn in the carpet, and the paint was peeling.

I survived the experience, so the mechanicals were apparently in better shape.

Sounds like what my father once recounted from traveling on a Aeroflot airliner 25 years ago.

[MicroBalrog]

Some years back I flew on a Zambia Airways 737 from Harare to Lusaka. Overhead bins were held shut with duct tape, you could see the decking through holes worn in the carpet, and the paint was peeling.

I survived the experience, so the mechanicals were apparently in better shape.

Oh, no, no. Not used in Africa. I said an airliner assembled in Africa. There's reasons no such bird exists.

Assembling is not a minor task.