KODIAK UPDATE
HAROLD’S GAZETTE 11/21/07
Quest's Second
KODIAK Takes Wing
S/N002 --
that's Quest Aircraft
serial number two, the second production KODIAK aircraft and the first customer
aircraft -- has flown and will be delivered in early December.
The ten-place G1000-equipped, three-glass-paneled, PT6-powered KODIAK can take
off in under 700 feet at its full gross weight of 6,750 pounds carrying a full
useful load of 3,450 pounds and drive all that aloft at 1,700 feet per minute.
Occupants are accommodated in 21G passenger seats, while pilots strap into 26G
crew seats. KODIAK was awarded its type certificate May 30 and has so far
accumulated a three-year order backlog. Millennium Concepts offers interiors
for the aircraft and has received an order for follow-on production interiors
from Quest. AVweb got up close and personal with the KODIAK at
AirVenture Oshkosh, 2007 --
find our video here.
Member
Harold Thomas
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Bear’s Noses
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Taking off for Ember paint
in Paine Field. Danny’s second KODIAK
flight |
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New Floor Fixture getting set up.
This along with the old floor fixture and two skinning fixtures should get us
to 5 day takt time |
005 floor in the new fuselage fixture,
already the framing is taking place. This build cycle will be a
good timed estimate of what it will take for our longest cycle time assembly. |
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Production
Status Boards are becoming consistent and starting to get filled in. The flip numbers are: Upper Left is the day of the build that
the cell is on (gets flipped as each day passes) Upper Right is the position in the
station plan that they are currently at (according to the station plan and
daily build schedule) If Left > Right, what’s the problem If Right > Left, Fantastic! The data on these boards are not really valid yet, this is just getting started. |
FLOOR Status Board
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Stage 1 Status Board |
Stage 2 Status Board |
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This is a traveling Status Board
that will go with each aircraft. The back of the
board is a series of pocket file holders that keeps the information unique to
this aircraft |
Production: The fuselage dolly is becoming a reality – this will carry
the fuselage through stages 2-4. |
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New Floor Skinning fixture in foreground,
0006 floor progressing in background. Hoping that 0006 will be
the first one to use the new skinning fixture – so that the floor fixture can
start on 007 (not James Bond) |
Wheels for fuselage to lay on. |
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The
RFC process continues to be worked down. |
3 Bears: Not sure when this will happen again that
we’ll have 3 KODIAKs on the ramp ‘Bear’s
tails’ |
