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Speaker 1: And what's being described as a pretty big move, the

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Speaker 1: National Aerospace Center in Canterbury has been given permanent airspace

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Speaker 1: for test flights. Now, the center's already been used to

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Speaker 1: test advanced aviation and space technology, so drones and space

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Speaker 1: planes and stuff like that. John Holt is the executive

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Speaker 1: director of the National Airspace Aerospace Center and is with us. Now, Hey, John,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? How helpful is it?

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Speaker 3: Well? Look, it's really great. But maybe firstly, our most

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Speaker 3: common name is Tarfucky because we're a joint venture between

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Speaker 3: the EWI and the New Zealand government. Cool, and this

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Speaker 3: has been a joint effort to get the space above

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Speaker 3: KAI three test but where we're physically located to basically

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Speaker 3: give us a global advantage in building a new vertical

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Speaker 3: in our economy, which is all about testing, refining, and

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Speaker 3: researching aerospace probably most commonly defined at the moment as

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Speaker 3: these dasher drones.

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Speaker 1: So does this basically just take the paperwork out of it?

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Speaker 3: That's right. So it's really difficult when you're in the

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Speaker 3: early stages of creating an aircraft to find places where

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Speaker 3: you can operate safely and and sort of be comfortably

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Speaker 3: not that far away from the public, but making them

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Speaker 3: feel that they're safe with some airspace specifically designed for

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Speaker 3: them to stay with them.

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Speaker 1: So who is using the Aerospace Center.

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Speaker 3: We've got a range of users and probably the most

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Speaker 3: exciting one is well, I mean, they will have their

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Speaker 3: own positives, but Dorn Aerospace has certainly received a lot

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Speaker 3: of publicity recently, so they are the first aircraft since

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Speaker 3: the Concord in a private context to actually break the

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Speaker 3: sound barrier.

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Speaker 1: Do you imagine that you will get more business as

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Speaker 1: a result of this?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, It's incredibly important that we have something so

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Speaker 3: close to facilities like christ Church and the airport and

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Speaker 3: Littleton Port for these test companies to get their gear in.

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Speaker 3: But regulation is one of the biggest barriers for these

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Speaker 3: new aircraft types.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now do you do you have to be able

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Speaker 1: to expand what you're doing here. Is it possible that

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Speaker 1: you could actually take over more space?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, look at the whole idea is to have

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Speaker 3: these facilities readily available in the right places. So this

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Speaker 3: is one of well, this is the first for New

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Speaker 3: Zealand and it includes the land plus the airspace, but

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Speaker 3: certainly not off the cards that there'll be others around

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Speaker 3: the country.

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Speaker 2: Okay, John, thank you very much, good luck te talk

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Speaker 2: order or myhora. John Holt, executive director of the tar

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Speaker 2: Fucky National Aerospace Center.

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