For those who don't want to watch 2hrs:
- 1289 orders
- expanded team into production and certification/approval
- Engine:
- About to cut first 4 impellers. Production strategies done
- HP turbine disc done, being measured. NDT/quality (X-ray, measuring, etc) underway.
- turbine blades continuing work on processes; in the thick of it. Basically up to casting strategies (cooling rates, etc) and casting analysis samples for testing alongside blades.
- Super alloy main engine casing casting process wip.
- gears & drivetrain components (shafts) making the rest of the bits. Gears exceed spec so they're going to cut more weight out of them.
- injectors: combustion test rig wip on flame shape improvements. More needed. Lots of detail on the effort required to get to here.
- starter/generator: in the thick of it, released most parts to production to make 5 of them. High speed test device commissioned.
- Airframe/composites: prototype (production) new set of moulds for flying prototypes, using lessons learned from fuselages last year.
- Lots of detail on firewall tests to choose final solution for flight prototypes
- Paint shop work (booths, equipment)
- Digital cockpit: discussion on some UI experiments from first principles to look at various VSI, Airspeed ideas. Night tests.
- Production facility: almost finished digging out & cementing slab for gantry mill (which requires special slab for precision). Gantry mill installed in ~1 month.
- electrics/lights, cabling in. Cement foundations outdoor done. Paint floor, environmental controls coming. Will take a while to move all development centre machines in & recalibrated.