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Wonder if any of you remember a plane I saw...
When I was a kid I took a private tour of the 747 assembly from Joe Sutter. Was right after st helens blew. We walked around the interior of a 747 being built for saudi arabia. Aside from all the technical aparatus that I was too young to appreciate we spent some time marveling at the woodwork in that plane. There was a table upstairs that had some large number of different wood species. Everything was done in house because it had to meet aviation weight and material requirements. There was also some custom tiling pattern in the kitchen that Joe thought looked pretty swanky but the designs all looked pretty corporate to my 12 year old eyes.
Most amazing thing I saw were that they had so many of these huge drafting rooms full of special tables and all these lights on armatures. I was a weekend and the rooms were dim so looked really mysterious.
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