From the Journal Pioneer
Colin MacLean, May 11, 2016
Trevor Hogan sat behind a shiny new control panel Wednesday morning, with all kinds of monitors, buttons and switches arrayed in front of him.
“It is awesome,” he laughed.
‘It’s just the best of everything. Compared to our old test cell, which was about 25 years old, this is just the best of the best,” he said, gesturing to the equipment.
Hogan is one of the operators of Vector Aerospace – Atlantic’s new engine test cell, the fourth at its Slemon Park facility.
The cells are essentially concrete rooms where airplane engines can be hooked up to monitoring equipment and put through their paces before being returned to their owners.
The company’s two older test cells each handle a certain series of engine types. This new cell is compatible with both those types and can be outfitted to accept new and larger engines.