To boldly go where no man has gone before (by Gareth R Knowles)
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At TUS Nordics 2017, Gareth R Knowles gave the presentation ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before’ in our Maritime Applications track, on Wednesday 11 October 2017.
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To boldly go where no man has gone before (by Gareth R Knowles)
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- 2. To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before WANT TO TALK IT THROUGH? CALL US ON +44 (0) 7976 827 001 1. We have the technology 2. We need to change 3. So, let’s just do it! Why not? 4. Why are we all here?
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Editor's Notes
- Good afternoon everyone, Hi, I’m Gareth form Martek Aviation. I have about 15 minutes to share some thoughts with you. Should you have any questions, please save them for the end or in fact the panel discussion afterwards and I’d be delighted to answer them. Or, if you prefer, you can fire them my way in the bar later tonight. Which reminds me, did anyone else hear about what happened in Copenhagen last night? No, maybe one or two of you, OK. Well, apparently, last night 2 drones flew into a bar in Copenhagen. … I know, crazy, isn’t it? …. You would have thought at least one of them would have sensed and avoided it, right? OK, tough convention, this is going to be rough 15 minutes. SLIDE
- To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before So this isn’t a Martek sell, neither am I going to try and tell you how clever we are. Maybe for most of you in this audience some of what I will share is of no real interest or news. But I’m hoping that there are some folks in here who have not yet been converted; and this message might be for you. So, lets see what we are going to talk about: We have the technology We need to change So, let’s just do it! Why not? Why are we all here? SLIDE
- At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive – literally steam-driven! But, by the end of that century, people routinely flew across continents and oceans in jet-powered aircraft. SLIDE
- We had explored space, been to the moon and studied objects beyond our solar system and galaxy. Enceladus and water vapour vents taken by Cassini: We can detect water on an icy moon in the depths of the solar system some 1.3Bn km from earth De Havilland Comet, worlds first commercial jet airliner SLIDE
- Communication by mobile phones and via colour televisions was normal. The power of nuclear fission had been harnessed. SLIDE
- We had developed the internet and astonishing medical technology. Indeed, technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. Just pause for a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come; this exponential increase in advancement will only continue. But don’t you find that paragraph, a bit clichéd, old news or even patronising and puerile? I would; if I had read it on some blog or wherever. Surely, we all live in the now and totally get the tech of today? It seems that all companies across industry and business declare themselves “champions of innovation and technology”. Indeed, even as individuals, we all walk around dripping in £1000s of tech and gadgets – there are more cell phones than people on our planet …. We live, breathe, communicate and socialise the future, don’t we? SLIDE
- (But we’ve always done it this way! And that’s the way we all like it, isn’t it?) And yet, outside the minds, labs and worlds of scientists and behind the glossy veneer of company websites’ strap lines, many of our fundamental systems and structures that were designed to fill the factories with workers and populate the management of the 20th century have remained intact from the early days of the industrial revolution: Our education systems, our business management systems, our democratic and bureaucracy systems, our reliance on fossil fuels (buried sunlight), our general reluctance to openly challenge the status quo and our suspicion of the new, unproven and unknown. SLIDE
- This is one of the dichotomies of our time; one of creating life changing wonderful technological advances, whilst many of us remain stuck in a pre-programmed sociocultural mind-set of dogmatic protocols and reluctance to challenge the way we set about solving the problems we face in daily life and business. Note that they’re pretty similar, separated by 200 years or so. The most important piece of equipment – the human eye remains unchanged. It’s extremely difficult to detect a man in the water more than 200m from the deck of a lifeboat on a flat calm day. And yet we can detect water on a frozen moon 1.3Bn km away SLIDE
- But if you agree that this is a problem, then it must only be one of our own creation and therefore we also have the ability to change it, if we want to. SLIDE
- Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 - Mar 2014 Radar and EO/IR cameras to compliment the human search 1.7 Million square miles covered 52 Days 29 Aircraft 14 Ships 334 Sorties Are we dong this right? Is this the best we can do? 90% of UK SAR H searches in coastal and maritime searches are incomplete - FACT MCA requests RNLI (charity) to launch lifeboats as a search capability in preference to SAR H - INCREDIBLE SAR H Captains (my former crew and colleagues) are willing to attempt to fly beyond the limits of the a/c and crew – making bad decisions. This is illogical and dangerous Director of a national SAR H company told me “Come back and talk to me when a drone can get there before one of my helicopters” Where? To do what? This pre-conditioned dogma is what I call the “Baywatch mentality” and it’s still very very common in aviators SLIDE
- So let’s take the example of SAR search: Why do you need to put a person in a plane? People aren’t as good as machines People make bad decision under pressure – my old mate is a SAR base commander and he would risk his a/c and crew – for an uncertain result. This won’t stand the test of time….. It won’t be acceptable to risk peoples lives at their place of work like this for very much longer. SLIDE
- Manned assets are truly precious in every way – we should treasure them and make their time more useful and less dangerous. To continue with the Baywatch mentality is illogical captain SLIDE
- I think that most people feel safe knowing that the world won’t change because the bureaucracy that has been established will protect them from the (dangerous) unknown consequence of tomorrow. Those people will dogmatically cite regulations and say “it’s not allowed – forbidden!”. Well consider the alternative to pioneering change. Consider the cost, consider the risk to life….; SLIDE
- We write the rules and create the world of the future. The world that our future selves will live in. It is our job to ensure we live the future we want – it is our obligation, our duty. So what will your legacy be? So lets just do it. Why not? SLIDE
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- But why should we bother? Why are we all here? Money – It is partly our greed that has brought us to where we are today. To gain knowledge and technical advantages over our adversaries and thereby accumulate wealth and power over others. Save Lives – If you had the capability to save a single life, or save hundreds/thousands of lives, you would, wouldn’t you? (Construction worker Jason Oglesbee the dramatic rescue of the woman after her boat overturned near the dam on the Des Moines River in Iowa) Make the World a Better Place – “We are the only species with the power to destroy the earth and the capacity to protect it” His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Who wouldn’t want to make the Earth a better place? If you could, you would, right? The greatest journeys start with a single step and the first step always takes the most effort. But it sure will be worth the effort. SLIDE
- Explicit sensor technology: Rotary aircraft superior ability to find the "sweep spot" to sample the plume, using real time gas sensor feedback. Rotary aircraft superior ability to get close enough to the stack and stay long enough to get a perfect measurement every time (mitigate sensor response time and detection threshold) Battle proven gas sensor technology >1000 ship measurements (cargo, passenger, tanker, large, small, summer, winter, low-sulphur (scrubber), high-sulphur (non-compliant), moored, cruising etc.), using different UAV airframes (fixed wing, mulitrotor, single rotor) and manned helicopters. Sensor system uncertainties lowest in the marked*, validated by FORCE Technology (National Reference Laboratory for Air Emission Monitoring in Denmark). Calibration and certification of all individual minisniffer boxes by third party (FORCE Technology) System proven agains lot's of comparative measurements, bunker fuel samples and CEMS, and against MUMM (Belgium coast guard sniffer plane) and TNO (fixed station at Rotterdam)