If the F'ing pilots are blaming maintenance, they're blaming the engineers. Pilots are the worst part of aviation.

It was the FAA and cost that killed it. The FAA continued to move the goal post and treated it with more and more regulations. We built a great mod and it was a pleasure to work with old school engineers. Both have passed on but they taught me a lot. They were Mcdonald Dougles engineers and showed me how to read and understand engineering drawings prior to ANSI specifications. In fact, I had to work on F4 mods reading the original J size drawings. I was the only one in my company who could read and understand the drawings from the fifties because of my time with these men.