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We flew for the first time today , we 

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had two flights . We flew from , uh 

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Davis Monton and then we flew from 

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Jackie Cochran out to Edwards . It was 

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the first time in the airplane . No 

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SIMS . No , nothing . Just sitting down 

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reading books , looking at a computer 

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to see what there is and then 

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discussing it amongst ourselves . 

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Having a little bit of cockpit time in . 

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This is the first time we brought a new 

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airplane out to Edwards for the test 

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pilot school in longer than I can 

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remember . And the specific purpose of 

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this airplane for spinning , this will 

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bring the first time that we've been 

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able to have organic spin capability at 

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the school for powered airplanes . 

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Since the mid nineties , 

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the test pilots that go through that 

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school , we test them and we evaluate 

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them on that specific events . So we 

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have them look at an airplane . They 

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have never flown that they've never 

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seen . And we give them a book that has 

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nothing but a couple of things about 

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the systems of the airplane . And then 

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we say you got to figure out how to 

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take this airplane , get it safely 

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airborne , get it safely on the ground . 

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That is a test pilot's job , my opinion . 

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And that's exactly what we were doing 

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here and our leadership was totally on 

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board with that , which is just 

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outstanding .