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My name's Paul Dees
I'm in the propulsion group I am the deputy propulsion lead
And, uh, my main focus is the integration and test
of the GE 414 engine into X59
For the engine, in and of itself
X59, you know, wouldn't go anywhere without it
So for our job, it's making sure that all the
air that's going into the engine is clean
and gives the engine the air that it needs to produce thrust
and then shoot all those molecules out the back
and push everything forward
One of our most precious resources as humans is time
Um, and so, this technology and this capability
I think will be able to give people more time
at wherever they're wanting to go
and that, that's, you know, invaluable
There's very few things I can do in my job without teamwork
and everything that we're doing on X59
is building towards one final, you know, piece of hardware
Going through school, a lot of teachers encouraged me as an individual
I was heavily involved in music and theater
And as weird as it sounds I almost think of
flight tests as a musical or an orchestra
Everyone has their piece to play
everyone has a position to be in
When we actually do rehearsals, we will do practices
we will do tests, with the pilots, with the sims
to practice for the actual activities that we're doing
to boil it down as similarly as a high school theater production
Everybody practices their part
and when it comes to their time to shine
then they do their part
Integration and test - I really love it!
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