1 00:00:06,656 --> 00:00:14,180 [Background sound/chatter] 2 00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:26,076 >>...keep coming... 3 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,778 ...all right, slow down a bit... 4 00:00:31,381 --> 00:00:47,230 [Background sound/chatter] 5 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:52,819 >>Up! 6 00:00:56,156 --> 00:01:16,259 [Background sound/chatter] 7 00:01:21,281 --> 00:01:22,866 >>...all right, go in... 8 00:01:22,866 --> 00:01:23,917 >>...quarter inch... 9 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:25,919 [Background sound/chatter] 10 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:27,420 >>...rolling forward... 11 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:28,721 >>...quarter inch... 12 00:01:28,721 --> 00:01:31,558 [Background sound/chatter] 13 00:01:31,558 --> 00:01:33,526 >>Let's keep going up... 14 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:34,160 >>...right side good... 15 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:35,478 >>Up, go- 16 00:01:36,412 --> 00:01:42,969 [Background sound/chatter] 17 00:01:43,436 --> 00:01:44,687 >>Move it forward... 18 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,142 >>Going forward... 19 00:01:51,077 --> 00:01:51,995 >>Go. 20 00:01:52,762 --> 00:01:55,265 [Background sound/chatter] 21 00:01:55,582 --> 00:01:56,366 >>...that's it... 22 00:01:57,150 --> 00:01:57,750 >>...good. 23 00:01:58,651 --> 00:02:11,731 [Background sound/chatter] 24 00:02:13,483 --> 00:02:15,485 >>Yay! 25 00:02:15,819 --> 00:02:17,887 [Applause] 26 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:18,738 >>You got a weight? 27 00:02:18,738 --> 00:02:19,405 >>...460... 28 00:02:19,405 --> 00:02:20,607 >>...same on this side... 29 00:02:21,691 --> 00:02:30,900 [Background sound/chatter] 30 00:02:33,019 --> 00:02:34,020 >>My name is Paul Dees, 31 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:37,457 I'm an aerospace engineer with NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. 32 00:02:37,790 --> 00:02:41,461 I work in propulsion integration and test for the X-59 aircraft. 33 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:45,715 We just installed the engine into X-59. 34 00:02:45,949 --> 00:02:51,421 It's a General Electric GE 414-100 engine for the X-59 aircraft. 35 00:02:51,654 --> 00:02:56,192 So this engine is a GE F414-100 engine. 36 00:02:56,492 --> 00:02:59,762 It's an engine specifically designed for single engine aircraft. 37 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:02,699 The X-59 is a purpose built aircraft 38 00:03:02,899 --> 00:03:06,152 to show that we can quiet the sonic boom. 39 00:03:08,037 --> 00:03:09,138 If people are familiar with 40 00:03:09,138 --> 00:03:12,775 sonic booms, they're very loud, can be very disruptive. 41 00:03:13,710 --> 00:03:17,597 But over the last 10, 15, 20 years, NASA has been working on technologies 42 00:03:17,747 --> 00:03:20,366 to quiet that sonic boom into a sonic thump. 43 00:03:20,667 --> 00:03:23,603 We've rolled all of those technologies into X-59 44 00:03:24,587 --> 00:03:28,975 to prove that it is actually capable to create a quiet supersonic aircraft. 45 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:32,011 So the engine is what powers everything. 46 00:03:32,011 --> 00:03:34,764 It's what gives the aircraft thrust, moves it through the air 47 00:03:34,981 --> 00:03:39,202 and eventually is what gets it going to the supersonic speeds 48 00:03:40,103 --> 00:03:44,958 where we'll test the X-59's capability to create a quiet sonic thump. 49 00:03:45,208 --> 00:03:49,128 So we just installed the 414 engine into X-59 50 00:03:49,128 --> 00:03:52,232 at Lockheed Martin's skunkworks in Palmdale. 51 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:55,551 The three team members who were a part of this or three 52 00:03:55,652 --> 00:03:59,239 organizations was NASA, Lockheed Martin and General Electric. 53 00:03:59,906 --> 00:04:04,761 Each portion of the group came together to help with the actual install. 54 00:04:05,161 --> 00:04:08,781 We had mechanics, technicians, engineers all down on the floor 55 00:04:09,382 --> 00:04:11,417 getting the engine in there safely 56 00:04:12,018 --> 00:04:14,087 and making sure that it was installed properly. 57 00:04:14,087 --> 00:04:17,573 Because we're using a 414 engine, there was already ground 58 00:04:17,573 --> 00:04:20,927 support equipment to help lift the engine up into the aircraft. 59 00:04:21,227 --> 00:04:23,363 We used standard F-18 60 00:04:24,781 --> 00:04:27,500 equipment to lift the engine into X-59, 61 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:30,236 but the process for us is a little bit different. 62 00:04:31,070 --> 00:04:35,158 F-18s have have rails and are a little bit easier 63 00:04:35,158 --> 00:04:39,262 and a little bit easier to maintain and to do that, that lift, that install. 64 00:04:39,662 --> 00:04:40,830 But when you're doing something 65 00:04:40,830 --> 00:04:44,567 for the first time and especially on a one-off aircraft, 66 00:04:45,018 --> 00:04:48,888 we had a lot of people around with eyes on in different places to make sure that 67 00:04:48,888 --> 00:04:52,108 the engine didn't come into the contact with the aircraft and vice versa 68 00:04:52,892 --> 00:04:55,611 so that nothing was damaged and the engine was safe once 69 00:04:55,611 --> 00:04:56,913 it got up into the airplane. 70 00:04:56,913 --> 00:05:02,151 As far as our group is concerned, what comes next for the for the propulsion 71 00:05:02,151 --> 00:05:06,055 group is we're going to keep supporting the aircraft during its build cycle. 72 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:11,027 So if you've seen a picture of the aircraft with the engine 73 00:05:11,027 --> 00:05:14,397 hanging, there's still kind of a big gap underneath the airplane. 74 00:05:14,881 --> 00:05:16,733 So the lower empennage still needs to go up. 75 00:05:16,733 --> 00:05:19,435 And that's a huge that's another huge milestone 76 00:05:20,036 --> 00:05:22,939 for the integration of the whole aircraft when it comes together. 77 00:05:23,089 --> 00:05:24,057 I'm very excited. 78 00:05:24,057 --> 00:05:24,741 My group 79 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:28,194 and the people that I've been working with between Lockheed, NASA, and G.E. 80 00:05:28,728 --> 00:05:31,614 have been working on this for about four years now 81 00:05:32,181 --> 00:05:35,251 to get to this one singular moment and so to see that 82 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:38,404 actually come to fruition is every engineer's dream.