I will say it's the most successful first flight of a hypersonic system I've ever been involved in.

Every first flight there's significant learning and you don't necessarily reach all of your objectives.

In this case though, privately developed aircraft on a rapid development timeline had an amazingly successful first flight.

Really proud of the team for that. Stand behind. I'm working at 0.5 close.

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Welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast, the Internet show that explores the fascinating world of air combat, the aircraft,

the weapon systems, and most importantly, the people and today, Ken Katz, the technology.

We're back with you and talking about some pretty exciting tech.

Yeah, it was definitely interesting to follow up on our earlier episode with Strato Launch and you know when we last talk with them,

they had some big things in the offing and since

then they've done their first powered flight so I wanted to follow up with them and

discuss that. That's right well because we've had an interview or episode I

should say on straddle Launch we've had episodes on

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