Textron announced the acquisition of Pipistrel, who is working on interesting electric cargo plane designs, the Nuuva series. Does this move make sense for Textron? Plus, we discuss the recent 737 crash in China and the trial of Mark Forkner over his charges related to the Boeing 737 MAX crashes and ensuing investigation.







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Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows Russia to nationalize planes, effectively keeping the planes and breaking the ownership contracts. We also discuss Boeing CEO pay, and how CEO pay is rationalized in general. There is news on JOBY's S4 crash, plus announcements from CityAirbus.







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Allen and Dan discuss the Netflix documentary about Boeing - did it accurately represent the facts in the 737 MAX crashes? Plus, they discuss the PR implications of showing off EVTOL aircraft in public spaces and how that will affect the future acceptance of this new market.







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A Joby Aviation S4 crashed - Will They Still Be Able to Certify? Plus, DARPA is pushing the limits with an unmanned Black Hawk flight. We also discuss Boeing 787 certification issues, F-35 lightning protection solutions, and the flying car safety outlook.







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Tom Warner, a lightning researcher, flew the T28 Storm Penetrating aircraft into thunderstorms in the hopes of gathering data and learning more about lightning strikes. Listen in as he share stories from his career as a pilot, atmospheric science and lightning researcher and photographer. Follow up with him on his blog and his YouTube channel.



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Natilus is pitching the idea of remotely-piloted cargo aircraft, hoping to disrupt the industry and reduce issues with pilot shortages and current jet designs. But, is it a realistic vision? We also discuss a recent opinion on COVID restrictions from the CEO of TAP airlines in Portugal, Eve's certification effort, and Eviation's CEO leaving the company abruptly just before their first flight.







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Airbus mentioned the possibility of building their own engines for a future fleet of hydrogen planes--will they really forgo Pratt & Whitney, GE or Rolls Royce and build them in-house? Plus, we discuss Delta's push for a USA-wide no-fly list to curb passenger disruptions, Jaunt Air Mobility partnering with Flapper in South America, plus the Eviation Alice's push forward into commercial flight.







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Fedex is asking the FAA to put anti-missile lasers on their cargo planes - is this necessary? The Qatar v Airbus fight continues, with Qatar Airways placing a large order with rival Boeing. And, Beta Technologies has partnered with the US Army - will this propel them even further toward the finish line?







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Plus, Ehang gets an order from AirX in Japan, the Airbus and Qatar Airways fight continues to heat up, the 5G rollout in America continues to be a debacle, and more.







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Ehang shares it's new intelligent EVTOL center - are they closing in on launching their aircraft to the public? Plus, we discuss the Airbus A380 returning to service, Airbus vs Boeing 2021 deliveries, Ehang's intelligent EVTOL center, China's C919 program and more.







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Joby has completed a second aircraft prototype for flight testing; this one will go to the Air Force--does this bring Joby closer to the finish line for certification? Plus, Qatar Airways sues Airbus over lightning protection skin damage, a propeller breaks off and enters the fuselage on a bird strike, and we talk about the future of EVTOL stocks.







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Korean Air is using drone swarms to inspect planes - will this work as well as human inspections? The Boeing 777 is getting new directives resulting from their early 2021 engine problems on a United flight from Denver, and Amazon invest in Beta Technologies - will their EVTOL vault ahead of others in the market?







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Six aerospace executives have been indicted on labor collusion charges - will they stick? Plus, a new report shows that the FAA has approached prosecutors, explaining that Mark Forkner, former test pilot for Boeing, is being made a scapegoat in the 737 MAX crashes. What will this mean for the case? We also discuss Eve Urban Air Mobility's plans to go public as a SPAC and a new Bristow EVTOL design.



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The Ehang 216 may be certified in a few months, according to new reports. Is this realistic? Plus, is the idea of a supersonic EVTOL feasible or even remotely reasonable? We also discuss the current pilot shortage in the US, the Jetson One sales numbers, Archer news and more.



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Transcript



welcome back to the Struck airspace engineering podcast i'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show got a great lineup first we'll talk about the rather rather desperate pilot shortage that's now gripping uh the u.s and also globally we'll talk about rolls-royce they've been testing one of their electric generators now exceeding one megawatt output which is insane we'll talk about uh hydrogen powered airliners the uk has revealed a plan that they think they can make a long-haul airliner work we'll see if alan agrees we'll also chat a little bit through elon musk's views on the matter obviously he has strong views on electric and hydrogen in the future in general and his are a little bit controversial when it comes to hydrogen power in our EVTOL segment we'll talk a little bit more about elon musk we'll talk about archer ehang jetson one uh which their sort of hobbyist uh aircraft have pretty much sold out by this point and a little uh story about apple car engineers and how they're starting to flee the nearly three trillion dollar company so alan let's start with this pilot shortage i struggle to understand these things a little bit obviously there's shortages of workers everywhere but the world hasn't i mean the world has changed but where did all the people go alan why do we have such a pilot shortage it seems like you know two years ago life was relatively normal obviously covid was a big deal and still is but how could we be desperate that many pilots at this point it doesn't seem to add up to me well when the when covet hit there was a lot of furloughs and pilots got laid off and in that interim because it was long enough it's been a year and a half two years going on two years now that pilots are educated people they can they can find jobs in other industries and they did and now that uh some of them are being recalled back they they don't want to go back in particular maybe they found a better paying job i mean they found a job with better better hours or less stress or a variety of variables there and i there if you look at the tsa numbers we're at about 85 90 of 2019 levels so the the flights at least the flights in the united states are pretty close to where we were and that means there's a lot of airplanes flying internally into the united states overseas not so much still and those tend to be kind of the smaller airplanes the 737s airbus a320s 319s uh the 737 maxes are going to be big in that space and so the most senior people don't tend to fly those airplanes it tends to be the the the towards the youngers younger ages that are flying those airplanes and i think they have other opportunities and and now that uh the the airlines are looking to expand and we have all the evital pilots uber flight kind of pilots that are going to be needed there's going to be a big demand on pilots and i i don't know if we have the infrastructure to support it because 50 years ago most pilots came out of the military i think now it's not nearly that man...

Sydney Seaplanes placed a large aircraft order from Eve Urban Air Mobility, a division of Embraer. Will it work out for them? The Airbus A350 has lightning protection issues stemming from expanded metal foils and paint peeling, leading to a contentious relationship between Airbus and Qatar. We also discuss new EVTOL designs, FAA regulations and more.







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Transcript Sydney Seaplanes Adds EVTOL Order, Airbus A350 Has Lightning Protection Problems & More



00:00:00:05 - 00:00:24:10UnknownThis episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the Struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on Struck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection.



00:00:28:09 - 00:00:43:05UnknownAll right, welcome back to the Struck Aerospace Engineering podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got number one something for Allen to really dig his teeth in. We've got some issues with Airbus aircraft and their lightning protection systems.



00:00:43:15 - 00:01:01:16UnknownSome paint feeling some controversy over expanded metal foils, and there's a pretty heavy dispute between Qatar Airways and Airbus. We'll dove into that. We're going to talk about the Dayton Zoning Board has voted to demolish the site of the Wright Brothers first bike shop.



00:01:02:08 - 00:01:20:18UnknownYou know, disappointing decision, obviously for a huge, huge end of innovators in aviation. The grandfathers of aviation. We'll talk about United deciding to put passengers on a safe flight. Not completely safe for one engine will be completely powered by sustainable airline fuel.



00:01:21:12 - 00:01:40:04UnknownAlso, seems like a curious decision. We'll talk about Pratt, they've announced an update to their A320 neo engine. It's going to have more thrust, and we'll see how that might affect their sales and their efficiency. And lastly, in our video segment, we'll talk about Sydney Sea planes striking a big deal for 50 aircraft of Eve Urban Air Mobility



00:01:40:12 - 00:01:54:09Unknownfour passenger EVTOL. They do a lot of commuter and tourism flights down Australia, so sounds like a really interesting proposition there. And lastly, we talked a little bit about Joby's Simulator, which Allen that lacks foot pedals, right?



00:01:54:09 - 00:02:12:10UnknownAnd doesn't have a rudder. Is that right? It's a totally different configuration than most airplanes. Yeah, it seems really interesting and unique, to say the least. So let's start with Airbus and Qatar Airways. So Reuters has obtained a number of photos which are pretty shocking.



00:02:12:10 - 00:02:27:21UnknownThey they make this seem like almost a home brew, a homebrew thing like you don't see paint peeling this badly. Qatar is very unhappy with Airbus. And both sides are sort of in a little bit of a tug of war about, you know, what's going on, who's going to fix this and how big of a deal this



00:02:27:21 - 00:02:46:13Unknownis. Yeah.

The Otto Aviation Celera 500L made some big claims on fuel efficiency and laminar flow. After flight testing, how have those claims held up? We also discuss more Boeing 787 manufacturing defects, the GE9X sand ingestion tests, Joby news on certification and the CityHawk EVTOL.



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Hyundai has spun off its EVTOL business into Supernal, with an interesting aircraft. And, the company shares a big vision for being a start-to-finish transportation company, with aircraft being on piece of the puzzle along with scooters, cars, etc. Plus, Boeing is in hot water with the FAA, now accused of hiring inexperienced or incompetent certification personnel - is the FAA justified in their warnings to Boeing?







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AMSL Aero has a boxwing EVTOL design with a prototype that's nearly ready to fly - can this interesting design work? Rolls Royce flies successfully using 100% SAF fuel, Volocopter sees big things happening in Rome, and more.







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The U.S. has an aging air traffic control tower problem. How will airports replace 100+ aging towers? Plus, is the Jetson One personal EVTOL the future of fun-to-fly aircraft, with little to no barrier to the skies? And, will Alaska Airlines' backing of hydrogen conversions mean we see jets flying on Hydrogen power sooner than later?







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The Cyclotech EVTOL is back, with a recent flight vaulting it back into the maintstream media. With a very unorthodox lift system, can it really become airworthy one day and reach mass-market acceptance? We also discuss more of the Forkner charges, Boeing 777x freighter rumors, the Boeing Starliner's flight date pushback, Lilium and ABB's partnership on charging stations, Wing's drone partnership with Walgreens, and more. Cover image copyright: Cyclotech.



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