It's the altitude and the location of the airplane or the speed of the airplane.
This is our antenna. Yes.
and we're turning in Ops check 8.9
Ops check 8.9,
turning in
836, one minute
one minute,
one minute mark
[Double boom]
Copy that PI
Are you ready for the report?
go ahead.
Yeah, We've got solid double
booms or sonic booms across the entire array.
So carpet in three is about getting ready and setting up and understanding
the logistics and the instrumentation and all the operations required to execute
phase two or the acoustic validation phase of the Quest X 59 mission.
I always like to say that the phase
two is the the exciting part of the Quest mission.
Right now, we're in phase one.
We're building the airplane. We're getting it safe to fly.
We're going to do what they call envelope expansion, making sure the airplane
is safe to fly at very slow speeds and at fast speeds as well.
But once we get to phase two is where the real excitement
and the instrumentation happens,
that's when we actually start measuring the sonic boom
and making sure that all of our design tools, all of our validation tools
match what we've designed them to do.
So a huge challenge
for these measurements are 70 sensors spread 30 miles across.
And in order to mechanize and to operate all of those sensors,
we can't have 70 different people at every single instrumentation box.
So we had to find a way to kind of automate that process.
So each of the GRS sensors or the ground recording systems
are specially equipped with an unintended remote operating triggering system.
It uses the ADS-B signal or the broadcast from the airplane on the ground.
We're able to use that broadcast from the airplane to calculate how fast
the airplane is going, how high it's flying and where it is.
And that information is sent to our sensors on the ground and triggers
when the airplane is close enough for us to record the sonic boom,
we're trying to ascertain and answer.
The question is like, how many people does it take to go out
and service these instruments on a daily basis and to get data back?
You know, how how many vehicles?
All those sorts of things.
Just how do we operate?
And because this is a very this will be a very large scale when we are doing x 59.
And so we're trying to answer get the answers
to the hard questions first and not the day before.
An x 59 flight.
The X-59 project is an incredible project.
It's definitely a once in a once in a generation.
It'll be a moment in history, aviation history, and to be a part of that
and to be able to help that program succeed
is making me feel very,
very privileged and very honored to be a part of that program.