EP15 – Spirit Aerosystems Stops Work; Final Airbus A380; Crash of United Flight 811; Electric VTOL Tech
In this episode we dig into more layoffs in the aviation industry, including Spirit Aerosystems, who is slowing down their work for Boeing. The final Airbus A380s were delivered, marking the end of an era. In our aerospace engineering fails segment, we discuss United Flight 811 and how a cargo door lock nearly took down the entire plane...Lastly, we touched on Joby Aviation and others, discussing some new VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) technology. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP15 - Spirit Aerosystems Stops Work; Final Airbus A380; Crash of United Flight 811; Electric VTOL Tech https://youtu.be/RRJLYtCpRVk Dan: This 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. Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightening protection. All right on. So another week, another episode, how's everything out there in Massachusetts Allen Hall: Fine! Dan, you know, it's weird. We were seen to be coming out of the coronavirus thing just fine, but now we're in a drought. And I know last week we're talking about a, was it locus or Cicada? What's the crazy Dan: books that we had. Allen Hall: Yeah. So we've gone to from Corona to drought, insect infestations. So it's crazy right now, in a still. Mid June, you know, it's, it's supposed to be, it is nice outside. Dan: It'll start raining snakes probably any day. So raining Cobra, dogs, Allen Hall: any kind of small animal Dan: snakes will come out of the toilet. That's what all, that's what it'll be. Allen Hall: It's like that movie Snakes on a Plane, right? What's not Dan: a big, which was, which was funny. It was legitimately funny. Cause people like laughed at it because they thought. That it was ridiculous, but it knew it was one of those movies that it was satire. Like they knew it were that it was ridiculous. And I thought it was really funny. I really enjoyed it. I got a lot of, a lot of acclaim at the time. A lot of fanfare. Allen Hall: We finally, we finally hit bare season here. So we had bear in the yard this past week with some colleagues. So it's a mama bear and a couple of Cubs gotta be careful around that. Dan: Yeah. Allen Hall: Spring, spring in the mountains. Dan: Yeah, for sure. So in today's episode, in our first segment or in our new segment, we've got, about spirit, you know, they're one of the big, part suppliers for Boeing. So some news there, the last . you know, end of an era is, as on our list here, we're going to talk about some of the new developments and cabins and specifically seats. Obviously this is big time re Corona virus. we're also gonna talk a little bit about, United airlines flight eight 11. Which this is kind of in our learn from failure segment, which, obviously aviation has evolved a lot over the years and we're going to talk about just how cargo doors have changed, in part, because of that incident, which is really, really fascinating, I mean, tragic, but a really interesting story. And the investigation took some twists and turns. And then we're gonna talk a little bit about. Airbus's new drone copter and this potential flying car model. that's after the Israeli Cormorant, which is, I guess not, it's like a prototype vehicle, but it's actually flown. She hasn't had any passengers in it yet. So, so Allen what's, what's the deal with spirit spirit Allen Hall: is a big supplier to Boeing. It has been that way for a long time. They also supply parts to Airbus. And I think that you should have Gulf stream too, but there are big seven 37,