Making Sense of Your Airplane Wire Harness
If you've ever looked behind an instrument panel, you know that an airplane wire harness looks less like a neat piece of engineering and more like a giant plate of high-tech spaghetti. It's the kind of thing that can make even a seasoned mechanic take a deep breath before diving in. But despite how chaotic all those bundles of color-coded wires might look, they're actually the most organized part of the aircraft. Without that "nervous system," your plane is essentially just a very expensive, very heavy glider. ...