1 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:04,358 what I wanted to do was work on 2 00:00:04,358 --> 00:00:06,580 airplanes for basically my whole life . 3 00:00:06,580 --> 00:00:08,747 In my freshman year of college , I got 4 00:00:09,010 --> 00:00:11,121 an interesting internship where I was 5 00:00:11,121 --> 00:00:13,288 working on actually robotic fish , but 6 00:00:13,288 --> 00:00:15,621 had some application to airplane design . 7 00:00:15,621 --> 00:00:18,100 Gotta be working on robotic fish and 8 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:20,110 programming them and thought it was 9 00:00:20,110 --> 00:00:22,332 gonna be great and it was interesting , 10 00:00:22,332 --> 00:00:24,554 but it was kind of the final time where 11 00:00:24,554 --> 00:00:26,777 I realized that wasn't exactly the path 12 00:00:26,777 --> 00:00:28,943 I wanted to go down . So shortly after 13 00:00:28,943 --> 00:00:32,080 that , um , actually , uh , Nasa test 14 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,480 pilot who was a super hornet pilot . Um , 15 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,040 and then ended up being the shuttle 16 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,750 astronaut uh came to our school and 17 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,871 basically talked about his career and 18 00:00:41,871 --> 00:00:43,649 he ended up doing a graduate or 19 00:00:43,649 --> 00:00:45,482 graduate degree at University of 20 00:00:45,482 --> 00:00:47,538 Washington . So that was sort of the 21 00:00:47,538 --> 00:00:49,593 day where I changed paths in my life 22 00:00:49,593 --> 00:00:51,816 and not getting signed up for Air Force 23 00:00:51,816 --> 00:00:54,038 the next week . I knew I wanted to work 24 00:00:54,038 --> 00:00:53,910 on airplanes . I didn't know as I 25 00:00:53,910 --> 00:00:55,632 wanted to fly him from there , 26 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,584 graduated . And then , uh , so you 27 00:00:57,584 --> 00:00:59,584 start off with a couple of years of 28 00:00:59,584 --> 00:01:01,640 pilot training , did that at Wichita 29 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,862 Falls texas Sheppard Air Force Base and 30 00:01:03,862 --> 00:01:05,807 then my dream the whole time going 31 00:01:05,807 --> 00:01:08,084 through there was to go fly this thing , 32 00:01:15,210 --> 00:01:17,430 It's pretty cool . Um , this is the 33 00:01:17,430 --> 00:01:20,040 only Air Force Base Evans station where 34 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,151 you can actually like , you know , go 35 00:01:22,151 --> 00:01:24,207 out , do a test point supersonic and 36 00:01:24,207 --> 00:01:26,373 then come home and then have your wife 37 00:01:26,373 --> 00:01:26,230 complain about how the dog's been 38 00:01:26,230 --> 00:01:28,452 scared all day because you sonic boom , 39 00:01:28,452 --> 00:01:29,370 The base 40 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:36,600 that was awesome . Take a lot of pride 41 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,933 in the quality of the sonic booms we do . 42 00:01:38,933 --> 00:01:40,989 Um , it's always a competition , but 43 00:01:40,989 --> 00:01:43,267 it's pretty cool to be able to do that . 44 00:01:43,267 --> 00:01:45,920 And then here's the bros out there uh , 45 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:48,242 in the base when they're getting tested 46 00:01:48,242 --> 00:01:50,464 out of them . The sonic booms you heard 47 00:01:50,464 --> 00:01:53,080 and maybe many of you felt they're 48 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,247 pretty common here . The ones that you 49 00:01:55,247 --> 00:01:57,600 felt that began our ceremony today were 50 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,180 sadly created by the last aircraft ever 51 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:04,116 to fly in a high altitude supersonic 52 00:02:04,116 --> 00:02:07,800 corridor . Never again will aircraft 53 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,120 fly in the high altitude supersonic 54 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,731 corridor that goes over this 55 00:02:11,731 --> 00:02:13,787 installation . But the high altitude 56 00:02:13,787 --> 00:02:16,810 supersonic corridor is officially dead . 57 00:02:18,110 --> 00:02:20,332 When I grew up , there's nothing cooler 58 00:02:20,332 --> 00:02:22,640 than fighter fighter jet or rocket . So 59 00:02:22,850 --> 00:02:25,330 it made sense for me to study hard for 60 00:02:25,330 --> 00:02:28,130 math , science and all that to try and 61 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:30,196 eventually work on these . Got lucky 62 00:02:30,196 --> 00:02:32,084 that I got to climb also today we 63 00:02:32,084 --> 00:02:34,570 renamed that chunk of airspace , that 64 00:02:34,570 --> 00:02:36,930 critical piece of our infrastructure in 65 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:38,986 the test and training environment in 66 00:02:38,986 --> 00:02:42,060 honor and in memory of the team , 67 00:02:42,730 --> 00:02:45,090 The team of big a airmen whose 68 00:02:45,090 --> 00:02:47,390 collective individual contributions 69 00:02:47,390 --> 00:02:49,980 coalesced into something much more 70 00:02:49,980 --> 00:02:51,960 powerful than they could have ever 71 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,790 imagined were using the supersonic 72 00:02:54,790 --> 00:02:56,950 corridors every week to go out and do 73 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,182 envelope expansion missions . We've got 74 00:02:59,182 --> 00:03:01,404 a bunch of new hardware . We're putting 75 00:03:01,404 --> 00:03:04,620 on the F- 22 . Um , this Jett is our 76 00:03:04,630 --> 00:03:06,797 air dominance fighter that we're gonna 77 00:03:06,797 --> 00:03:08,963 be using for the next decade . I think 78 00:03:08,963 --> 00:03:11,074 we need to get the word out there and 79 00:03:11,074 --> 00:03:10,740 make sure people know that it's awesome 80 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:12,990 to work on this stuff and uh we haven't 81 00:03:12,990 --> 00:03:15,046 figured it all out . There's still a 82 00:03:15,046 --> 00:03:18,240 lot more uh we need to figure out for 83 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:21,380 hypersonic in their honor and their 84 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:24,280 memory . We officially christian that 85 00:03:24,290 --> 00:03:26,810 high altitude supersonic corridor , the 86 00:03:26,810 --> 00:03:30,430 bell X one supersonic corridor . 87 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:33,230 When I request instead of the high 88 00:03:33,230 --> 00:03:35,452 altitude supersonic corridor will press 89 00:03:35,452 --> 00:03:37,563 the Bell X . One corridor and I think 90 00:03:37,563 --> 00:03:39,674 that'll be cool to say on the radio . 91 00:03:39,674 --> 00:03:41,674 There's a lot of work left to do so 92 00:03:41,674 --> 00:03:43,563 hopefully we can inspire the next 93 00:03:43,563 --> 00:03:46,050 generation to study hard and build the 94 00:03:46,050 --> 00:03:46,530 next thing .