Today we took the afternoon and traveled to Sandpoint, Idaho to visit the Quest Aircraft Company factory. We had planned on doing this field trip tomorrow but due to poor weather in the Pacific Northwest we were not able to get our turbine test cell outside. So we bumped our field trip up a day and postponed our outside noise making until tomorrow.
It was fascinating to be able to tour this aircraft factory. The process of taking an aircraft from concept to flight is mind boggling, and the smart people that make it happen are amazing. Some of the tooling and manufacturing processes that were happening in the factory were very neat to see. It was interesting to see where all the aircraft materials are delivered at one end of the factory, and roughly the distance of a football field later finished aircraft are rolling out of the door from the opposite end.
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