WEBVTT 00:00.540 --> 00:01.540 Yeah . 00:11.440 --> 00:14.420 Today we are evaluating and am to 00:14.420 --> 00:17.310 airfield matting system with a Navy P 00:17.310 --> 00:19.477 eight Poseidon aircraft load . We have 00:19.477 --> 00:21.588 a relatively new airframe that's been 00:21.588 --> 00:23.880 modified for the military , and we do 00:23.880 --> 00:26.190 not have any criteria to let us know 00:26.200 --> 00:29.110 how long the matting systems gonna last 00:29.120 --> 00:31.287 before it fails . The P eight Poseidon 00:31.287 --> 00:33.370 is actually a Navy sub hunter . 00:33.380 --> 00:35.380 Aircraft is the one that goes out , 00:35.380 --> 00:37.620 flies over the oceans looking for enemy 00:37.620 --> 00:39.564 submarines . That mission has been 00:39.564 --> 00:41.731 around for a while , but they've moved 00:41.731 --> 00:43.787 it to a new airframe . Uh , and this 00:43.787 --> 00:45.953 airframe is is pretty heavy . It's got 00:45.953 --> 00:48.260 two wheels under each landing gear and 00:48.260 --> 00:50.260 because they're so close together , 00:50.260 --> 00:52.371 have a very high tire pressure . They 00:52.371 --> 00:54.482 actually cause a lot of damage to our 00:54.482 --> 00:56.704 payments . Airfields and payments . Has 00:56.704 --> 00:58.871 been doing this type of work since the 00:58.871 --> 00:58.570 inception of airplanes as weapons of 00:58.570 --> 01:01.170 war in the 19 forties . So what we do 01:01.170 --> 01:03.890 is measure how fast it takes and an 01:03.900 --> 01:06.060 airfield surface before it fails in 01:06.060 --> 01:08.370 terms of numbers of passes . Well , why 01:08.370 --> 01:10.148 is that important ? Because our 01:10.148 --> 01:12.480 military operators need to know how 01:12.480 --> 01:14.647 long an airfield is gonna last when we 01:14.647 --> 01:16.758 go and build it . So behind me is the 01:16.758 --> 01:19.190 heavy vehicle simulator hyphenate for 01:19.190 --> 01:21.560 airfield version , it's a giant machine . 01:21.570 --> 01:23.960 It can put hundreds of thousands of 01:23.960 --> 01:25.960 passes on a payment in a very short 01:25.960 --> 01:27.960 time , So basically , we can put 20 01:27.960 --> 01:30.071 years worth of traffic on any kind of 01:30.071 --> 01:31.960 airfield surface in a matter of a 01:31.960 --> 01:34.182 couple of months . It will help us know 01:34.182 --> 01:36.404 how to design new payments when we know 01:36.404 --> 01:38.738 this aircraft is going to operate there . 01:38.738 --> 01:38.500 So we may have to change the thickness 01:38.500 --> 01:40.667 mainly of the asphalt or the thickness 01:40.667 --> 01:42.444 of the concrete for new designs 01:42.444 --> 01:44.780 supporting this aircraft . Or if we're 01:44.790 --> 01:47.012 evaluating an existing airfield that we 01:47.012 --> 01:49.123 already have , we will be able to let 01:49.123 --> 01:51.290 the owner of their field know how much 01:51.290 --> 01:53.290 reduction in life that they may get 01:53.290 --> 01:55.290 when they bring this airframe to an 01:55.290 --> 01:57.290 existing airfield . This has been a 01:57.290 --> 01:59.123 very exciting opportunity for me 01:59.123 --> 02:01.179 because I've been working with these 02:01.179 --> 02:03.401 matting systems for the last 15 years , 02:03.401 --> 02:05.512 and this is the first time ever we're 02:05.512 --> 02:07.568 using this HBs machine to evaluate a 02:07.568 --> 02:09.679 matting system . The neat thing about 02:09.679 --> 02:11.568 it is you get very consistent and 02:11.568 --> 02:13.790 controlled operations of loading on the 02:13.790 --> 02:15.623 test section . It's a little bit 02:15.623 --> 02:17.790 different than our manual load carts , 02:17.790 --> 02:19.957 so we can , with a computer control in 02:19.957 --> 02:19.820 those positions so we can get more 02:19.820 --> 02:22.300 refined experimental results . So we're 02:22.300 --> 02:24.300 really excited about looking at the 02:24.300 --> 02:27.460 future of using this machine to rapidly 02:27.460 --> 02:30.020 evaluate a new systems that we're 02:30.030 --> 02:32.680 currently designing . So we can really 02:32.680 --> 02:34.791 understand how this aircraft performs 02:34.791 --> 02:37.080 on payments so that we can basically 02:37.080 --> 02:39.580 rewrite the textbook on the performance 02:39.590 --> 02:41.760 of this aircraft on our airfields .