Yea go ahead.
Yea will be ready in about thirty seconds.
Zero Niner down that scope
from center one three four point three seven.
That Oakland NASA 846 is ready
to split off I can either go straight ahead
and climb or stay at three six.
Five.
On air one fifty six down that scope
from center one two one point two five.
NASA seven four seven heavy climb maintain one four south.
Okay passing one zero for one four south.
Ready on your command.
Okay NASA one seven is configured
with fuel you are cleared to sample.
Zero seventy-eight across the board
and fuel flows are number two nineteen
and number three, three-thousand.
Running engines.
Two, One, Fire.
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We have radio contact on departure.
Five.
Go ahead and execute start up script.
Red bar achieved.
Go ahead and turn on the hydraulic pump to low.
Pressure on low.
Ready to run the spectrum.
We're ready.
Fifty four thousand pound upload.
Starting.
Pacing on left four.
Forty-five hundred.
Needles are up releasing now.
On condition.
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Wave point two.
Okay starting the maneuver.
Armed and engaged.
And throttle up.
Takeoff at Seven-twenty.
Edwards Tower NASA UAS Airborne US work area surface
to three thousand feet.
On my mark.
Two, One, Start.
I see it. Top of the ramp up.
They were getting data at three times the rate they normally do.
Christchurch is certainly a big part of the answer.
Both because you have really good weather here this time
of year and you have some really nice objects in the sky.
I'm personally excited
about having Dream Chaser here at Dryden.
I can't think of a better place to be testing a vehicle
like this then to be bringing it right out here
to the Edwards Dry Lake Bed
which is very historic in it's own right.
Three, Two, One Release, Release, Release.
Good Release
I have enormous affection for this place.
It's people and its vision for the future
of the world of flight.
And I believe whenever I have the privilege
of visiting here again, and years ahead.
Ask someone.
What's new?
There will always be something.
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