Meet VSX-1: the Navy’s elite science and know-how squadron that takes cutting-edge, never-before-flown gear from the lab to the skies. With uniquely modified plane—from heavy-lift P-3s to the Navy’s solely Twin Otter—they put new tech to the final word check in real-world circumstances. A good-knit staff of maintainers, aircrew, and contractors gasoline innovation for the Navy, NASA, and past, turning experimental concepts into airborne actuality.