When I was young and yearned for answers to questions not yet asked was when the hook was set.
Another tip: Correlate my suggestion above with Concorde's insistence that their hideously expensive glass mat is yet another reason why the Lifeline is a unique product.
I am beginning to believe the 94 minute product introduction film I saw on youtube was a strictly proprietary in-house engineering piece that was "improperly copied"
It showed massive jigs in action where plate orientation and alignment was performed using laser guides, and pneumatic pistons. All computer controlled with builtin- go-no-go rejection and how through the cell connectors caused problems and loop over lead buss spread connectivity to the join plates.
This was aerospace grade assembly. What the mats looked like under 50x magnification.
Concorde must have had "consideration" assistance lent by the military. No one on their right mind would have a start up that demanded tens of millions of dollars invested in plate alignment machinery that was computer controlled. just-in-time batch plate pasting. Computer grid forming. Batch analysis of raw materials.
I wanted to see the video again. Concorde denied it's existence repeatedly. What was the giveaway is that they tried to bleed information from me and they pressed me for date and time of day I watched it and where in profile on youtube I saw it. When I mentioned that a flash of the plate alignment machinery had a prominent SIEMENS riveted production tag that's when things got serious. They asked me to get back to them quickly if I should see the video anywhere else.
Anyway it all adds up to the military contracts Concorde has paid the tab for the elaborate machinery. Doesn't take a genius to figure out the Magnehelic manifold pressure control the military batteries use is to compensate for sea level to rapidly changing stratospheric pressure differentials in warplanes. Recombinant pressure relief design will never be the same :)
Despite the Lifeline's higher price I feel like the military provided a vast chasm of advancement for Concorde, right off the bat.
