Originally posted by Desertfox
You work for Cessna!
Yup, I sure do. I never thought I'd like working for a company that big, but let me tell you... it rocks. My boss is great, my coworkers are fun, the office is quiet and friendly, and there are good snack machines.
The only sucky thing is that I commute 120 miles every day...
Originally posted by Desertfox
Columbia? That explains the plane, I was going to say, that does not look like a Cessna!
CATIA is definately cool. I'll be learning to use this upcoming semester.
*Nod* Cessna Textron picked Columbia/PacAir out of bankruptcy in... 2006, I think it was, and we're getting them back up into the game. The 400 and the Mooney Acclaim are fighting for the spot as the fastest civvie prop aircraft, and Mooney managed to edge us out when Columbia was having troubles - beat us by 8mph.
But one of our technical guys told me that now that Cessna has the line, we're gonna chase them off with a stick and reclaim our rightful title!
And let me tell ya, Cessna's got some fun things coming up on the burner - the Columbus, for one, and the new CJ4, which we actually painted last week. (Yes... we've had it for months and it's just now been painted.) The CJ4 prototype has this big cylinder in the tail that is painted red and has "Warning! Explosive Device!" labeled all over it. I think it's part of an ejection system, but I don't work on the Citations, so I'm not certain.
The Citation Mustang, though... now
THAT'S a cool toy!
Humorously, although it's the smallest of the Citations, it was the one I found it easiest to fit inside the cockpit. The only disturbing part is that the onboard toilet is not screened in... two of the four cabin chairs are facing right at it, too. It has this lid which flips down and a seatbelt which allows it to be used for, say, the administrative assistant.
I work for Technical Publications (TechPubs) which uses CATIA to get wireframes of the planes for the manuals. I watched my boss demonstrate it the other day, and let me tell you, Foxy... when you get to learn it, you'll have a ball. CATIA lets you pick the materials your design uses, and it just figures out for you what kind of forces will make a specific part fail. My boss was telling me about a guy who uses CATIA to figure out how to stress flat pieces of metal using an air bladder in order so that it springs back to just the right amount of curvature. It is one SHINY piece of software.