Posts Tagged ‘Kodiak’

It’s not about the plane

Posted by Ian and Julie Fallis on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
NTM's first Kodiak taxis away from the Idaho factory where it was built.

NTM's first Kodiak taxis away from the Idaho factory where it was built.

It’s really just a big hunk of metal.

As cool as the Quest Kodiak airplane is – and it really is a cool plane – it’s little more than a bunch of aluminum with an engine stuck on the end.

What’s really great about the Kodiak is the lives it will help save. And I’m not just talking about physical lives.

And that’s what made my trip to Idaho worthwhile.

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I probably deserve this

Posted by Ian and Julie Fallis on Thursday, December 17th, 2009
NTM's first Kodiak taxis out on the way to be painted last week.

NTM's first Kodiak taxis out on the way to be painted last week.

What words do you think just do not belong together?

George Carlin famously cited “jumbo shrimp,” among others, in a monologue about oxymorons. (Did you know oxymoron is an oxymoron? It’s Greek for “sharply dull.”)

This week I’ve run headlong into two words that really should not be together. They’re not an oxymoron, but they are scary: Idaho January.

Yes, this week I received my itinerary for a trip to Idaho in January. Sandpoint, Idaho, to be precise, where the average low in January is 18 degrees. It’s 19 and snowing there as I write this.

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