Why travel to Texas to watch your product go up in flames when it’s so much faster and cheaper to see it completely destroyed from the comfort and safety of your office? Andrew Feghali wondered exactly that – and so his company now offers its customers a virtual reality look inside his Fort Worth fire testing laboratory.
Feghali, pictured with his marketing officer Reena Ryall, is giving away pocket-size viewers that will turn your smartphone into a VR headset that will let you watch tests filmed at their Aeroblaze Laboratory – which specialises in flammability testing of aircraft interior products. Showing at AIX is a typical seat cushion oil burn test, but Aeroblaze can now let customers see the test carried out on their own products.
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Feghali’s goal is to offer that viewing in real time. He says that customers who’ve had the VR experience of a blowtorch blast hitting their product “find it’s comforting to see that, actually, it’s not on fire”.
He adds: “Many of our customers order this test regularly, but few have actually watched one of these tests performed.”
While working on cable tests at Parker Hannifin, Feghali saw an opportunity to offer a specialised aerospace interiors service and in 2016 set up Aeroblaze, which now has clients worldwide who typically order the tests online. The VR experience is the latest aspect of a broad strategy to give customers easy, real-time access to the test process and all the data that comes out of it, he says.
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Source: Flight Daily News
