I have stood at more airport windows than I can count, watching ground crews work, tracking tail numbers, trying to identify aircraft by their engine nacelles. I have, at unreasonable hours, followed first flight videos to their end. I track my own flights on FlightRadar24 before I board them, not because I need to, but because I want to know exactly what I'm about to get on. I am, unambiguously, an AvGeek. And the Airbus factory tour in Toulouse is the place I had been build