We Fly What We Build

The big deal about this aircraft it's the first one to come out of our production facility. So two aircraft we've been flying were prototypes. This is the first one of production which is a huge huge milestone. Hey Chuck how are you sir? Hey sorry I missed your call there. Oh it's all right just checking in on the 11 o'clock. So there it's it's everybody's pushing but you know it's a culture building thing it's a camaraderie building thing and virtually everyone is involved. There's not a person in the business that that isn't and that that means a lot obviously. So go go go cool. All right we'll talk to you at 11. Thanks in advance for your insight there. So we're going to go into D2 here and every day I've been spending an hour or so hour to two hours doing the first flight sequence of everything from the startup through the shutdown of the airplane. So we're going to do a version right now. Did you see this? Isn't that great? It's the cockpit. Flying the first flight in the CX is you know it may be conceived as like hey that's a treat you get for engineering or whatever but it's not the case. It is a experience for me to really really learn about the shortcomings of the engineering so that I don't misunderstand or misrepresent the status of our business. Not to investors not to customers and certainly not to myself which would be dishonest in guiding the business to what's important. This is his way of leading the company from the front which is so so uncommon these days. Like he's the he'll be the first one to put himself at risk. He has so much faith in what we've all done together that he's excited and eager to be the first guy in the airplane and fly it. Test chase altimeter at three hundred zero three five six go. Mile test card one does point one break. Chase say taxi instructions. Test chase clear for takeoff large runway heading initially. It's never a no risk thing to go flying for the first time so I think ultimately if those risks roll up to me to make a decision then I should own that decision. I'm accepting the risk and I'm not just accepting it for somebody else but I'm accepting it for myself. It generates an empathy for all of the people that that are working on those problems because you're in those problems with them. Getting a shot with that pretty factory in background that built this thing. That's the goal. The approach little control check felt good and we are good to land.