 So I'm just going to start with some of the basic information and I'm going to get more in depth with how you got to this point and how the plane is. I'm going to grab some of the other planes. Sure. So we'll try to do as much as we can now. We don't have to come back. Okay. All right. So yes, so just basic stuff. Who are you sir? Commander Tony Wilson. Call sign Brick. I'm one of the test pilots at VX-23 in Patuxent River flying the F-35. So I started off enlisted. I joined the Navy in 1991 as a new electrician on submarines. I was on the USS Boise. I did that for a number of years and I got picked up for the enlisted commissioning program. Went to school at Old Dominion University right there in Norfolk. After school went to flight school where I was fortunate enough to earn a jet slot. Went to VFA-106 to learn to fly F-18s and then joined VFA-87, the Golden Warriors out of Oceana and CAG-8. While I was with them had the opportunity to support ground troops in Iraq during OIF to include shock and awe. After that went to test pilot school which is the first step to becoming obviously a test pilot from Patuxent River. After that I joined the F-35 program for the first time. Back then we didn't have a lot of planes flying but did a lot of simulator work leading up to some of the work that we're doing today on the boat. When I was done with my first tour at Pax River went to VFA-102 in Japan. Did a department head tour in Super Hornets and then was fortunate enough to return to VX-23 and the F-35 ITF to fly the F-35. Exactly. Well, I'm not to that level. I feel very fortunate to... I had a skipper who used to say that the four pillars enable aviation or timing, timing, luck and timing. So that's really all that happened with me. I fell into the right place at the right time. That's the way I feel about it. But I do feel very fortunate to be a part of this program and to lead the way to make this machine that's already pretty good, make it even better for the fleet so that when guys are coming aboard the boat on the dark and stormy nights it's easy. They know that they're going to catch a wire each and every time because the plane flies that good. It's amazing. It's night and day when trying to compare it to an F-18. The capabilities that the plane will bring to the fleet are phenomenal. The aviator inside the cockpit is going to have a wide view of the battle space and be able to make rapid decisions based on the information that he or she is gaining in the cockpit. Be able to strike the targets in a timely manner, hitting the target each and every time. So it's an amazing machine. As far as flying qualities, it's the best flying aircraft I've had the opportunity to fly. The engineers, both nav-air engineers and Lockheed Martin engineers have done a phenomenal job at making this machine as easy as they can to fly. That's evident with how we're performing out here behind the boat, catching the wire each and every time. DT2 as the name would imply is a continuation of our developmental test program. Last year we went out on the Nimitz and did DT1 and during that phase of testing we were able to carve out an initial operating envelope. You can do all the testing that you want shore-based, but there's just certain things about the boat that you can't simulate on shore. In particular, the airflow around the boat, the burble, you can't simulate that. We have to know with 100% confidence how the aircraft is going to perform both in the burble as well as being shot off the front end of the boat, the front end of the carrier. So we did a lot of that work during DT1 and we were able to provide a limited operating envelope for the fleet. DT2 is just a continuation of that process. What we're doing in particular during DT2 is we're going to take a look at some high-wind approaches behind the boat. We're going to load some internal ordnance to move our CG forward to take a look at catapult performance as well as take a look at some afterburner catapult shots. And some crosswind performance. So we should be out here for about two weeks and hopefully we'll finish up everything that we came out to do. The next phase is going to be DT3 that's scheduled to go sometime next year. And really that's going to be the capstone exercise or the capstone test project for the F-35C at the boat. We'll be taking a look at both internal and external stores loading, paying particular attention to asymmetric loading. So we'll put a handful of stores, you know, missiles and bombs, weapons under one wing. So it's loaded all on one side. And again, we'll take a look at how it performs during catapult launches and take a look at what we call the approach handling qualities with that max asymmetry for approaches behind the boat and all different types of wind conditions. Everyone wants to know about the helmet. So the helmet is a leap in technology from what tactical aviators have been flying with for the last 20, 30 years. If you take a look at legacy aircraft F-16, F-14, F-18, they all have a HUD or a heads up display. A piece of glass that sits in front of the pilot and displays critical flight information, airspeed, altitude, attitude as well as weapon status, targeting information. So the pilot garners a lot of information off this heads up display. And it's very important, especially for a tactical aviator, because every time if you take taking a step back, back in Vietnam, it wasn't the threat that you saw that got the pilots killed. It was a threat they didn't see. So aircraft designers have tried very hard to let the pilot keep his head out of the cockpit as much as possible to scan the area around him. So with the HUD, it's a very defined space where the information is provided. With the helmet mounted display or the HMD, the pilot now has the ability to look all around and still have critical flight information, targeting information, information about threats. And it's all displayed on the helmet. It's all integrated. So no matter where the pilot is looking, he or she has that piece of information available to them. There's so many things about it, the excitement of getting to try something new and doing something for the first time. The sense of satisfaction that you are helping develop a safe and lethal machine that the fleet is going to be able to use, that we're going to bring stealth to the fleet, and they'll be able to employ that against the America's enemies. The Ike as a host has been fantastic. The crew has been welcoming and excited about having the aircraft here. There's the friendly rivalry obviously about the plane, but the crew has been fantastic. Everyone is excited about the plane, asking questions, which makes our team feel better because to see the fleet getting excited about the plane. So it is a unique dichotomy to see the newest fighter on one of the oldest decks in the fleet. And to see them integrate seamlessly. It's a testament to both the ship designers of past and the aircraft designers of present that were able to take brand new weapons systems and put them on our warships regardless of how old they are. No, not really. No, no worries.