Chapter 56

Saturday 18 February 1300

Johanna Warren

After our morning Military training we all decided to do with Mrs. Ruths approval music instead of sports today. Rose and Gregory took the Pipe Band now called The Wappinger Nation Watch. They played and marched near the Paddock and our Herd enjoyed them, at least they did not stampede. Roseland Forest of our Orchestra said to Lester Miller of our Bluegrass/Country Band that with them playing there the serious musicians could hear the way music was supposed to sound not a sack of fighting cats.

Parsons Moose and Hector Sky Rider Aries our Native American Fluit and Drum due said it is loud, but it is Tribal. It did and still dose served the purpose of an oppressed culture s unifying sound as does our Fluit and Drum not like that electrified Pop/Rock that used volume just for the purpose of noise. That comment caused Lela Downs and Marcus Night to do a riff on their Electric Guitars.

An hour later I called, ok children, now it is time to put forth our program for The Wappinger Nation Americas Leaders of Tomorrow Forum and the Presidential visit. We will have Four, Twenty-minute sessions with a Five-minute break between each one. Each group will do one except The Pipe band. You will do a peace with each of the other groups.

Orchestra Hail to the Chief.

Parsons Moose and Hector The Wappinger Nation Anthem.

The Pipes and Drums The Star-Spangled Banner.

Orchestra Sets.

The Orchestra will do Andr Rieu rendition of Highland Cathedral for Bagpipes and Orchestra.

Native American Flute and Drums Sets.

Native American Flute and Drums and Bagpipes will do a rendition of the Mohawk Drum Song.

Pop/Rock Sets.

The Pop/Rock Band will do Valhalla Awaits Me by Amon Amarth With Pipes and Drums.

Bluegrass/Country Sets.

The Bluegrass/Country will do Trace Adkins Arlington with pipes and Drums.

We will close with everyone doing Amazing Grace Starting with Parsons and Hector. The Orchestra comes in on the Second stanza. The Pop/Rock and The Bluegrass/Country on the Third stanza. The Pipes joining for the Forth stanza.

Each group will offer me their play list and I will present it to Mrs. Ruth who along with people way above my pay grade selected the Pipes and Drums play list.

Now for the next hour we will rehearse the Three Openers, and the Pipes and Drums play list. At 1530 I called a halt and said well-done people we have these down well. Each group will meet again tomorrow and decide on their play list. Monday, rehearse with just your group. Tuesday, We meet together to hear each other in the theater. Wednesday 1400, Dress rehearsal in the Institute Theater with an audience. Small group rehearsal after that. Concert Tuesday 28 February.

Mothers Protector and Second Mother time to go take care of your babies. I do not want you to be late because of me and they found out it was my fault, not pretty.

1400 Sunday 19 February Jack

Lester and I were setting in the cave after church and lunch thinking about our off time We both had met with our bands and decided on our playlists. Johanna had them and would let us know tomorrow of the selected songs.

I was looking at pictures of an aircraft Jeff, Mart, Alex, and I had designed well in the sandbox. As A Drone Pilot with 1st and 2nd level Maintenance responsibilities for a RQ-7Bv2 Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft with MUV- 2 Night Owls. I saw problems with design, reliability, and capabilities of the drones we were deploying. I knew Drones could be built to do more using less resources and less of a footprint both actual and electronic if designed and built differently.

Comparing ours with the Carrier Pigeon. The Carrier Pigeon design was not verry flight efficient but had a brain that Mensa would love. Its payload to weight ratio was verry high. The 1K was 8.5 K, the 10K was 92.5K. The design of ours was far superior to the Carrier Pigeon, with a payload to weight ratio of around Fifty percent.

The 20K test bed we designed weighed 40.2K but carried 20k at Five Thousand feet in the heat of the day. It had though a brain that was just above a toaster. It was made of non-radar reflecting material to include a ceramic and composite material engines and blades. We had created the 3D print aircraft from carbon composite materials, encased in layers of Kevlar, and cooked in an autoclave to make it stronger and durable than the operational ones we were flying. Lift capacity and range were increased.

We decided we need to construct a Test bed to understand the how and why of material, design, and flight characteristics to see if we could really make it work. Well in the sand box, we acquired the materials and with a borrowed Military 3D printer that we used during its down time. We printed. Cooked the parts in borrowed medical autoclave. Then assembled and flew a 4-motor solar/battery hybrid that had a 20 Kilo payload. It was a tilt rotor/heavy lift design based on the Schema del Bell QTR and the Erikson S-64 Air-Crane. The 4 tiltrotors of the Bell placed on a tailless S-64. With a 2 meters long fuselage and a .4-meter spine. 2- meter aft wingspan, 1.5 Meter forward wingspan. 4 Hacker Q80-13XS F3A motors with .5- meter 3 blade rotors (2 Kilo). 2 Solarparts PG-SP-FSP50, 18V 50W solar panels, mounted on top of the fuselage, with power converter. Four Admiral Pro 5 cell 50c 6000mah batteries with the batteries and converter mounted inside. From 4 mounting points under neath we attached a 1.5 X .5 X .25-meter basket that could hold 20 Kilos.

We had to do all our tests tethered because of a lack of a sufficient brain and an operational program. It flew for 8 hours and 24 minutes with a full payload at hover mode. 14 hours and 41 minutes in aircraft mode. We achieved 12 hover to aircraft conversions with landings and take-offs.

Unfortunately, in the base attack a mortar round hit the tent, the aircraft and all our equipment were in. There was nothing that could be saved. I do still have all the design drawings and manufacturing information on my computer. I thought then and still do that it could be upscaled to carry 10,000 or 20,000 Kilos. I could probably get Wappinger Nation Industries Inc. to give me the time, equipment, and money to build a new prototype. I would make a proposal after The Wappinger Nation Americas Leaders of Tomorrow Forum and the Presidential visit.

Then Sandra Lee, Johanna, and Lela, my squad came in and Sandra Lee asked what I was looking at. I explained the Quad Lift Automatous Vertical Logistical Delivery System (QLAVLDS) concept to them. I continued I am going to, after The Wappinger Nation Americas Leaders of Tomorrow Forum and the Presidential visit, make a proposal to build another prototype. I will use the Carrier Pigeon power trains and brain to build another 20K version. Even try to build a Jet Turbin 200K or larger version depending on the available printer and engines.

Sandra Lee

So military, no sense of humor, art, or mythology. QLAVLDS (Quad Lift Automatous Vertical Logistical Delivery System) I will call it Simurgh. Depicted in Persian art as a winged creature in the shape of a bird, gigantic enough to carry off an elephant or a whale.

Why are you waiting till after The Forum and Presidential visit? We have that huge multi-head Giant 3D Printer that could print a C-130. Let us see this design.

Here you have a complete airframe design that is of Geodetic construction like The British WW II Wellington Bomber. You wrap the airframe with Four to Eight layers Kevlar instead of doped linin. The weave threads direction being rotated with a composite adhesive a that would bake to a solid skin. The wings are also Geodetic construction that we bake in a pressure frame. You designed it using the Rolls-Royce T406 engine like the V-22 we are getting. We have twenty-Four of these engines on hand that Consumer Electric Corporation had purchased for I do not know what.

O good, here comes the rest of our people.

Janice, that huge 3D printer in the basement next to the DRCS facility, could the system print this? I know all the avionics, hydraulic, and other systems would have to be hand installed but the airframe could be ground, shock, and destruction tested. It would also allow us to see the 3D Systems capabilities and shortcomings.

Janice

Let me look at closely at Jacks design. Yes it could print it and give us an idea of how it all works. From reading the reports the biggest problem was when they tried to bake it, they could not control the warping and distortion. They tried to fill the shell with casting sand, but it became too heavy and increased the cooking time from Forty-Eight-hours to Ten days making the system impractical. Also, there was no way to rotate the frame inside the oven to insure even heating.

April Joy

I looked and Justeene was taping an empty paper towel roll on the counter. She then picked it up and looked through it saying I spy something Blue. I said wait I have an idea. The casting sand dose prevent the warping and distortion but how much is really needed? The airframe is hollow but to fill it with casting sand is too much. Place a concrete, ceramic, or composite tube in the center of the airframe and pressure spray the damp sand between the tube and airframe. We position the tube on a spit that rotates the airframe as it bakes. After baking and cooling we use an ultra-sonic vibrations to break up the hardened sand and remove the tube. Pressure washing would finish the clean-up.

We could do models of the system using The Big Blue and skip building a Second prototype. Why reinvent the wheel? Just go right for the full size. We have the Printer and Autoclave already we just need to figure out the spit.

Janice

Consumer Electric Corporation bought enough 3D print material for testing but stopped after a couple of tries due to the warping problem. The printing time of Jeff s design will take Seven to Ten days. According to the records I studied, a layer is printed it is preliminary cured by UV light, so the entire project is stable until the frame is covered with a skin and baked. The baking is when their problems began.

I say we see if we can print this. If the printer works when it is done, we cover it with a Kevlar skin and bake it. As the Frame prints, we can figure out the spit assembly. All needed items for the print and Kevlar skin are current on hand. We would only need to pay for the power and someone to keep an eye on the printer as it works.

Let us get this started:

From: The Platoon

To: The Wappinger Nation Industries Inc. Director of Industrial Production.

Subject: Funding for Simurgh. (Quad Lift Automatous Vertical Logistical Delivery System)

A 20,000 Kilo autonomous vertical lift system for the delivery of logistics in a

contested environment.

We of The Platoon request the authorization, personnel, and funding to construct Four Simurgh vehicle airframes using the Industrial 3D printing facility located in C quadrant sub-levels B1-B4 Building 47. The Simurgh design is the work of Jefferson Alexander Davis, Jackson Andrew Davis, Martinez Sanchez Davis, and Alexander Boone Davis. They freely surrender all claims of intellectual property rights to the ownership of Simurgh to The Wappinger Nation Industries Inc. for the authorization, personnel, and funding to construct Four Simurgh vehicle airframes.