Yes. Great and he is present. Thank you. Our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy president mccarthy, you have your announcements . President mccarthy sorry. Ok. Keep forgotten the mask. Good morning and welcome to the Building Inspection Commission meeting for august 2020. Im angus mccarthy, president of the building commissioner and im joined by fellow commissioner members along with interim director reardon and dbi staff. As you will hear in detail from our agenda items today, were continuing to cope with the circumstances caused by covid19 pandemic. Along with just completing the departments move into our new perm a center at 49 south venice, on behalf of the commissioner, i want to thank dbi staff for their hard work for the move including boxing up hundreds and hundreds of plans thanks to the Deputy Director madison for leading move and inaudible to everyone who did their part. If you would like to mute, sonia. Appreciate it. Along with the commissio
An officer. He spent one year in iraq as a platoon leader and later a oneyear tour in afghanistan. Nicholas moran is also a graduate of the u. S. Army command and general staff college. Hes been working as San Francisco bays war gaming americas in the house tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chiefton. Might want to remember that. His first book on the development of Tank Destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. Nick is known for articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. Lots on youtube called inside the chief tans hatch. Or there is there is this video cast on spanns American History tv. Ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] thats about as high as it goes. Good evening oh, boy. Todays talk is whitey sherman as it was. Thats not a very good title but it was the best i could come up when i was asked, hey, will you give us a talk. So im going to do the obligatory shoutout. The people who paid for me to come out here. We alrea
More and they will go next to the international. Well welcome to visionaries im. Mark states 50th anniversary of the 1st manned landing on the moon and ive spoken to someone who actually. Take place. Rusty shrank arent. Great to have you with us today so going to start with couple questions about a polar 9 this serious anniversary of the mission that was devoted to preparations the flight to the moon but compared to a poll 8 which was all about checked. Arion testing to detect jury you guys had to do the real stuff test equipment you know how the moguls were working with the docking of the models between each other and and it wouldnt last support for your suit saying the real stuff when you were taking off to that mission how did you estimate the danger i mean basically its like testing new vehicle only in space. Well the main danger if you will i mean we didnt see it as dangerous we had done simulations and for you know for a year or so youre ready for anything that can happens or at
Mean so that was not new returning to earth from earth orbit but getting back to the command and Service Module when the lunar module which had never been used before we had to get back 100 miles to a successful rendezvous and docking as if we had come up from the moon so we were basically testing what later flights would have to do coming up off the moon and that was the 1st time that i had ever been done so that was new but also myself when i went outside that was new to i was the 1st one to use the new apollo suit had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which worked beautifully and it was also a test flight of the backpack that i used which people used on the moon when youre in space testing that amazing stuff and basically. The foundation for man to go to the moon. How much depends on you or not in your skills and how much depends on the genies of the person who equipped designed the equipment and the technology that actually brought you there. Well let
Before we had to get back 100 miles to a successful rendezvous and docking as if we had come up from the moon so we were basically. Testing what later flights would have to do coming up off the moon and that was the 1st time that that had ever been done so that was new but also my so when i went outside that was new to i was the 1st one to use the new apollo suit had never been used before so it was a test flight of that new suit which worked beautifully and it was also a test flight of the backpack that i used which people use on the moon when youre in space testing all that amazing self and basically laying out the foundation for man to go to the moon. How much depends on you not on your skills and how much depends on the genies of the person who equipped designed the equipment and the technology that actually brought you there. What it will only say that if im performing a concert. A list concerto in Carnegie Hall certainly a lot of the audience enjoyment will be the list compositio