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		dingaling 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation > Engines are actually changed fairly frequently A modern turbofan can run for 20,000+ hours on-wing before removal for overhaul. That's longer than many car engines last in total.

extraduder_ire 1 day ago [–]

Most cars don't operate for >12 hours a day every day. Last time I randomly checked the flight history of a Ryanair 737 on flightradar24, it had spent over 18 and a half of the previous 24 hours airborne.

justsid 1 day ago | [–]

Same with trains. If they don’t run, they start to lose a lot of money for the operator really fast.

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