back on my framework au (again) i know it's like five years old but it's just so big. it's taking some time.
that said, i've been tracking the Zephyr One repairs from the Avionics fire that totally blew out what I assume is the lower levels laboratory (yes, the Zephyr has two, one behind the cockpit and the other below it, the one with the emergency ladder from 3x22 Ascension, deal with it)
this is how it looks like in 4x22 World's End. totally botched. no electronics are working, the walls are blotched with what i'm assuming is oil from the gas and the material tried to keep it contained from spreading to other parts of the plane. also wires are hanging all over the place in Command, plus the out-of-place monitors.
We do Not see this again in season 5. sure, we were in the future, the Zephyr's old by then. in the past, again, with the Two Laboratories Theory, we could've just used the other one until it was convenient to do so.
but nothing explains how Command looked perfectly fine by 5x13 Principia.
sure, with the wires bunched up near the lights, maybe they just put super glue and fixed it while no one was looking. conveniently there aren't much Zephyr scenes in 5x05 Rewind past the cargo hold, so maybe there were restoration efforts in between then.
but Noah, the other Chronicom in the Lighthouse, is deeply averse to Enoch's tendency to "intervene" as it were, and honestly didn't have much faith in the whole season 5 time loop thing, eliminating him as a mechanic candidate.
but hey, Piper had HALO'd out, and they had a plan if things didn't go their way. This included going to the Air Force – headed by General Hale, since Talbot was out of commission – if things went south.
So, uh, what are the chances Hale and the rest of Hydra actually rebuilt the plane back to functionality 😅