1 00:00:32,148 --> 00:00:35,585 It's the altitude and the location of the airplane or the speed of the airplane. 2 00:00:35,668 --> 00:00:42,442 This is our antenna. Yes. 3 00:02:06,342 --> 00:02:08,394 and we're turning in Ops check 8.9 4 00:02:08,394 --> 00:02:12,148 Ops check 8.9, 5 00:02:12,232 --> 00:02:15,168 turning in 6 00:02:15,168 --> 00:02:17,270 836, one minute 7 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:18,688 one minute, 8 00:02:18,688 --> 00:02:31,384 one minute mark 9 00:02:50,336 --> 00:02:53,323 [Double boom] 10 00:02:56,809 --> 00:02:57,660 Copy that PI 11 00:02:57,660 --> 00:03:00,997 Are you ready for the report? 12 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,349 go ahead. 13 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:05,702 Yeah, We've got solid double 14 00:03:05,702 --> 00:03:10,123 booms or sonic booms across the entire array. 15 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:13,977 So carpet in three is about getting ready and setting up and understanding 16 00:03:13,977 --> 00:03:19,232 the logistics and the instrumentation and all the operations required to execute 17 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:25,205 phase two or the acoustic validation phase of the Quest X 59 mission. 18 00:03:25,288 --> 00:03:26,873 I always like to say that the phase 19 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:30,627 two is the the exciting part of the Quest mission. 20 00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:31,945 Right now, we're in phase one. 21 00:03:31,945 --> 00:03:34,247 We're building the airplane. We're getting it safe to fly. 22 00:03:34,247 --> 00:03:37,467 We're going to do what they call envelope expansion, making sure the airplane 23 00:03:37,467 --> 00:03:42,906 is safe to fly at very slow speeds and at fast speeds as well. 24 00:03:42,989 --> 00:03:45,508 But once we get to phase two is where the real excitement 25 00:03:45,508 --> 00:03:46,609 and the instrumentation happens, 26 00:03:46,609 --> 00:03:48,661 that's when we actually start measuring the sonic boom 27 00:03:48,661 --> 00:03:53,049 and making sure that all of our design tools, all of our validation tools 28 00:03:53,132 --> 00:03:57,153 match what we've designed them to do. 29 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:59,522 So a huge challenge 30 00:03:59,522 --> 00:04:04,177 for these measurements are 70 sensors spread 30 miles across. 31 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:08,464 And in order to mechanize and to operate all of those sensors, 32 00:04:08,548 --> 00:04:12,602 we can't have 70 different people at every single instrumentation box. 33 00:04:12,685 --> 00:04:15,288 So we had to find a way to kind of automate that process. 34 00:04:15,288 --> 00:04:19,142 So each of the GRS sensors or the ground recording systems 35 00:04:19,225 --> 00:04:23,980 are specially equipped with an unintended remote operating triggering system. 36 00:04:24,047 --> 00:04:29,786 It uses the ADS-B signal or the broadcast from the airplane on the ground. 37 00:04:29,786 --> 00:04:32,972 We're able to use that broadcast from the airplane to calculate how fast 38 00:04:32,972 --> 00:04:36,342 the airplane is going, how high it's flying and where it is. 39 00:04:36,409 --> 00:04:40,163 And that information is sent to our sensors on the ground and triggers 40 00:04:40,163 --> 00:04:45,068 when the airplane is close enough for us to record the sonic boom, 41 00:04:45,151 --> 00:04:46,703 we're trying to ascertain and answer. 42 00:04:46,703 --> 00:04:49,822 The question is like, how many people does it take to go out 43 00:04:49,822 --> 00:04:52,909 and service these instruments on a daily basis and to get data back? 44 00:04:52,909 --> 00:04:54,861 You know, how how many vehicles? 45 00:04:54,861 --> 00:04:56,696 All those sorts of things. 46 00:04:56,696 --> 00:04:59,148 Just how do we operate? 47 00:04:59,148 --> 00:05:04,337 And because this is a very this will be a very large scale when we are doing x 59. 48 00:05:04,337 --> 00:05:07,557 And so we're trying to answer get the answers 49 00:05:07,557 --> 00:05:10,560 to the hard questions first and not the day before. 50 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,946 An x 59 flight. 51 00:05:14,030 --> 00:05:17,400 The X-59 project is an incredible project. 52 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,787 It's definitely a once in a once in a generation. 53 00:05:20,870 --> 00:05:25,191 It'll be a moment in history, aviation history, and to be a part of that 54 00:05:25,191 --> 00:05:28,194 and to be able to help that program succeed 55 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:31,014 is making me feel very, 56 00:05:31,014 --> 00:05:33,566 very privileged and very honored to be a part of that program.