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>> That's good.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Fused reality is a new
technology for simulation,

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but what it does
is we can determine

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where the real world ends
and the virtual world begins.

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What this allows you to do is

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that any aircraft can
become its own simulator.

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Whether it's on the hanger deck
or the flight deck or out there

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on the tarmac, or
if it's airborne.

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>> Things that simulators
aren't good

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at modeling always is real air.

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So I think what you gain here is
taking a simulator into the air

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and you're actually exposed
to the real environment,

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the flying environment
up and away.

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And now taking that simulator,
you know, and visually kind

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of superimposing
that on top of it.

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So that's a new thing.

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That's good.

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>> What's most impressive to me

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about fused reality is
the feeling that you get

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as you're actually
flying the aircraft

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and seeing a new visual
environment outside the window.

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And being able to
put other aircraft

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that aren't actually
there in your field of you

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and make you feel like you're
actually flying in formation

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with another aircraft
that isn't there.

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>> As a pilot, it-- evaluating
the system we're looking

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at landing tasks,
and see if I could do

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that using the synthetic vision,
but the real aircraft flying up

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and way at a safe
altitude today.

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So what I was seeing was me
starting at like 500 feet

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and coming down right to the
synthetic ground while we're up

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and away at, you
know, 5000 feet.

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In addition to the landing
tasks we also did formation

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and aerial refueling tasks.

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So we basically had a
tanker set up out there

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and we're just trying to see
how we could orient ourselves

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and keep a smooth, stable
station with that tanker

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and conceivably do some actual
aerial refueling training

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with the system.

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One more feature that we looked
at was the stenciling mode

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where basically this synthetic
tanker that I'm flying

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in formation with
that's not really there,

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it's essentially cut out.

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Everything around it is the
real world that's also coming

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in through my, you know,
camera, so I'm seeing mountains

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and cloud background and
the dash of the aircraft,

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but with this digital tanker
out there that I'm trying

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to fly formation with.

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>> Were talking about the
emotional gain of the pilot.

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Like really seeing
that they feel

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like they're actually
in the situation.

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You know they are in a real
aircraft, and you really feel

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like you're potentially going
to collide with the aircraft

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in a formation task
if you get too close.

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So, those types of things
really make the system feel

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like it's actually
really happening.

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>> A couple of them
forgot that they were

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in a simulated environment
talking

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that they were really
getting their blood pumping,

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and they felt like they were
at risk when they came close

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to aerial refuelers
or formation aircraft.

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[ Inaudible ]

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>> When you put [inaudible],
I mean, yeah, I can see it,

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and if I were to look
at the video later on,

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I would say oh there's
a mountain.

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But my-- I was text saturated.

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I mean if you guys
would've talked

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to me I probably wouldn't have
even had heard you except the

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in-- your forward, your
aft, your forward, your aft.

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[inaudible] and I were talking,
don't you see the mountains

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and I was like I'm
looking at an airplane.

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[laugh]

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Yeah, really.

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I was all wired at the end.

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Because that plane was
like right there, you know.

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I got super close and maybe
too close and I learned a lot.

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There was a learning curve
today, but I came out of it

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as I didn't hurt anything.

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I mean, that's what you want out
of this is the ability to break

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out control systems whether they
have good qualities are not be a

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good training aid if that's
what you want to do with it,

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and to not hurt anyone but get
that pilot emotion up there.

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That's what this stuff is.

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I mean, it got me.

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I mean, I'm not just--
I go out there and try

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to give you the best I can as
a test pilot, but at the end,

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you know, my legs were shaking.

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So, my hats off to you
for doing this stuff.

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I mean what a great
training aid.