1 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:01,540 Yeah . 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,420 Today we are evaluating and am to 3 00:00:14,420 --> 00:00:17,310 airfield matting system with a Navy P 4 00:00:17,310 --> 00:00:19,477 eight Poseidon aircraft load . We have 5 00:00:19,477 --> 00:00:21,588 a relatively new airframe that's been 6 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:23,880 modified for the military , and we do 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,190 not have any criteria to let us know 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,110 how long the matting systems gonna last 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,287 before it fails . The P eight Poseidon 10 00:00:31,287 --> 00:00:33,370 is actually a Navy sub hunter . 11 00:00:33,380 --> 00:00:35,380 Aircraft is the one that goes out , 12 00:00:35,380 --> 00:00:37,620 flies over the oceans looking for enemy 13 00:00:37,620 --> 00:00:39,564 submarines . That mission has been 14 00:00:39,564 --> 00:00:41,731 around for a while , but they've moved 15 00:00:41,731 --> 00:00:43,787 it to a new airframe . Uh , and this 16 00:00:43,787 --> 00:00:45,953 airframe is is pretty heavy . It's got 17 00:00:45,953 --> 00:00:48,260 two wheels under each landing gear and 18 00:00:48,260 --> 00:00:50,260 because they're so close together , 19 00:00:50,260 --> 00:00:52,371 have a very high tire pressure . They 20 00:00:52,371 --> 00:00:54,482 actually cause a lot of damage to our 21 00:00:54,482 --> 00:00:56,704 payments . Airfields and payments . Has 22 00:00:56,704 --> 00:00:58,871 been doing this type of work since the 23 00:00:58,871 --> 00:00:58,570 inception of airplanes as weapons of 24 00:00:58,570 --> 00:01:01,170 war in the 19 forties . So what we do 25 00:01:01,170 --> 00:01:03,890 is measure how fast it takes and an 26 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:06,060 airfield surface before it fails in 27 00:01:06,060 --> 00:01:08,370 terms of numbers of passes . Well , why 28 00:01:08,370 --> 00:01:10,148 is that important ? Because our 29 00:01:10,148 --> 00:01:12,480 military operators need to know how 30 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,647 long an airfield is gonna last when we 31 00:01:14,647 --> 00:01:16,758 go and build it . So behind me is the 32 00:01:16,758 --> 00:01:19,190 heavy vehicle simulator hyphenate for 33 00:01:19,190 --> 00:01:21,560 airfield version , it's a giant machine . 34 00:01:21,570 --> 00:01:23,960 It can put hundreds of thousands of 35 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:25,960 passes on a payment in a very short 36 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:27,960 time , So basically , we can put 20 37 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,071 years worth of traffic on any kind of 38 00:01:30,071 --> 00:01:31,960 airfield surface in a matter of a 39 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:34,182 couple of months . It will help us know 40 00:01:34,182 --> 00:01:36,404 how to design new payments when we know 41 00:01:36,404 --> 00:01:38,738 this aircraft is going to operate there . 42 00:01:38,738 --> 00:01:38,500 So we may have to change the thickness 43 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:40,667 mainly of the asphalt or the thickness 44 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:42,444 of the concrete for new designs 45 00:01:42,444 --> 00:01:44,780 supporting this aircraft . Or if we're 46 00:01:44,790 --> 00:01:47,012 evaluating an existing airfield that we 47 00:01:47,012 --> 00:01:49,123 already have , we will be able to let 48 00:01:49,123 --> 00:01:51,290 the owner of their field know how much 49 00:01:51,290 --> 00:01:53,290 reduction in life that they may get 50 00:01:53,290 --> 00:01:55,290 when they bring this airframe to an 51 00:01:55,290 --> 00:01:57,290 existing airfield . This has been a 52 00:01:57,290 --> 00:01:59,123 very exciting opportunity for me 53 00:01:59,123 --> 00:02:01,179 because I've been working with these 54 00:02:01,179 --> 00:02:03,401 matting systems for the last 15 years , 55 00:02:03,401 --> 00:02:05,512 and this is the first time ever we're 56 00:02:05,512 --> 00:02:07,568 using this HBs machine to evaluate a 57 00:02:07,568 --> 00:02:09,679 matting system . The neat thing about 58 00:02:09,679 --> 00:02:11,568 it is you get very consistent and 59 00:02:11,568 --> 00:02:13,790 controlled operations of loading on the 60 00:02:13,790 --> 00:02:15,623 test section . It's a little bit 61 00:02:15,623 --> 00:02:17,790 different than our manual load carts , 62 00:02:17,790 --> 00:02:19,957 so we can , with a computer control in 63 00:02:19,957 --> 00:02:19,820 those positions so we can get more 64 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:22,300 refined experimental results . So we're 65 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:24,300 really excited about looking at the 66 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:27,460 future of using this machine to rapidly 67 00:02:27,460 --> 00:02:30,020 evaluate a new systems that we're 68 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:32,680 currently designing . So we can really 69 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,791 understand how this aircraft performs 70 00:02:34,791 --> 00:02:37,080 on payments so that we can basically 71 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,580 rewrite the textbook on the performance 72 00:02:39,590 --> 00:02:41,760 of this aircraft on our airfields .