2011
Kodiak ECC: In the Business of Having it All
Wednesday, October 5, 2011…Designing an aircraft is like managing a complex business deal at least in this way: You sit down at the table with your partner, engineering, and you face off with aerodynamics and physics until you can walk away with your desired outcome. In our business, some folks feel this isn’t a battle…
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Pilot Log: KODIAK – Anywhere the Destination Matters
Friday, August 19, 2011…You never know where a chance encounter will lead you in life. One such experience occurred at AirVenture 2010. We were approached by a pilot who had recently become acquainted with a plastic surgeon from Brussels. The doctor was “an outdoorsman…a mountain climbing type,” we were told. Just our kind of guy….
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Mission Log: Welcome to a Different Approach
Friday, June 24, 2011…Certain challenges require a different approach. Sitting at home, or at the office, in the comfort of a familiar routine, it can be hard to imagine the kind of heavy lifting that KODIAKs are doing out in remote places where nothing is comfortable or familiar. Today KODIAKs are deployed into some of…
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Quest Delivers: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Have a New Mount
Wednesday, March 30, 2011…Integrity, honesty, professionalism, compassion, respect, accountability…these are the core values of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). They are also core values here at Quest. And, we now share another thing in common. Under the headline “VISION” on the RCMP’s official web page they listed, “demonstrate leadership in the pursuit of excellence.”…
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Quest News: KODIAK with TKS Ice Protection System
Monday, January 31, 2011…With KODIAK’s new TKS™ Ice Protection System (IPS) freezing conditions are a little less chilling. As any pilot knows, icing on an airplane can quickly turn a milk run into a catastrophe, and it doesn’t take the three inches of ice we built up on unprotected portions of our KODIAK during flight…
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