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Except that all aircraft, fixed wing or not, undergo far more rigorous

maintenance and usage checks. Unless you check out all systems responsible for how your wife's sports car moves and behaves before she drives it each time, you're right - a bunch of stuff can develop to make the car unsafe.

My take only comes from 100+ photoflights I made with pilots all over the US on Cessna 152s and 172s from the mid-1980s until about 15 years go. We never even got in and cranked the planes up until a walk-around inspection of the moving parts, a fuel test and an inspection of the plane's body was performed. This even happened when on a few occasions we flew on the same plane on the same day in flights a couple of hours apart.

Here's a typical checklist that's mandatory for every flight:

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