- My name's Technical Sergeant Daniel Caban,
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
Whenever we go somewhere, TDY or deployment,
we're not able to bring all our aircraft covers with us
because of the sheer size and volume of the current covers.
My idea allows the F-22 to become more mobile
by carrying the covers with the aircraft itself.
This is our current Dash 21 setup aircraft covers.
This is as compact as you can make it.
This is how it looks whenever we pack it up to ship.
This is the aircraft covers all laid out,
and this is what I'm proposing, here.
Much smaller, compacted, to actually fly with the aircraft.
So when we deploy we don't have to only have one
to travel with the aircraft.
We have to have one here at home station
to keep it covered when it's gonna take off,
one at the halfway point, we cover it there,
and then one at the final deployed location.
This is one full setup of aircraft covers.
On fighter aircraft the space is at a premium.
There's not any cargo bays or anything like that.
With my covers, it enables you
to fit 'em in that actual small space.
We actually have two of these components on the aircraft,
and the whole setup fits on one side.
I've used a new type of magnet.
It's called polymagnets,
and they will allow you to set the distance
of the magnetic field, so if there's any
electronic components behind the panels
that it could damage from magnetic field interference,
it will not pass through the actual panel itself,
or structure.
So the current covers actually do damage
to the aircraft itself.
When you go to remove it,
it actually pulls the coatings off with the covers.
Within a couple weeks, when we get 'em,
they become worn out,
and we have to replace the panel, due to these,
and they fall apart.
Yeah, they're $3,500 a piece just for one,
so $7,000 for one of these, for both sides.
That's roughly about the price that I'm proposing
that my current covers would cost.