EP18 – Jaunt Air Mobility EVTOL – Will it Fly? Hydrogen-Powered Planes and Is Fire-Suppressing Foam on Its Way Out?
In this episode of the Struck aerospace engineering podcast, we discuss Jaunt Air Mobility's gyrocopter EVTOL design and talk about it's future. We discuss NXTCOMM's new flat satcom radome antenna design, Airbus' white paper on hydrogen-powered planes and the EU's plan to become carbon-neutral. We cover Embraer's new foray into Turboprop planes, antimicrobial tech in cabins, and the toxic, costly nature of fire-suppressing foam. 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: EP18 - Jaunt Air Mobility EVTOL - Will it Fly? Hydrogen-Powered Planes and Is Fire-Suppressing Foam on Its Way Out? 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 lightning protection. All right, welcome back. This is struck episode 18, Allen. What's going on? Allen Hall: Hey, it's been a great week, Dan, pretty busy things. Just starting to pick up. Looks like air. Aviation's getting a little, a little more busy. Flights are ticking up a little bit. So it's Dan: gonna be, yeah, you got another trip this week. Don't you? Allen Hall: I want, so this is my second trip outside of Massachusetts. Uh, we're a little curious to see if the. Any changes have occurred in the, uh, airport experience and on the aircraft, it seems like the Southwest airlines was what were travel on. It is still blocking out the middle seats. And there was a report by MIT I saw yesterday or day before that was talking about how that reduced. Um, exposure to COVID by like roughly 50%, which, which was interesting. But the last time we traveled through the airports, airports seem busy. They were really busy, but the parking lots were empty. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what it was. Um, so yeah, it can be a busy week. Dan: Well, I heard, yeah, I heard Delta's gonna keep, uh, their middle seats blocked off until September, but then again, other. Uh, companies hadn't really followed suit. And of course, with American airlines, they didn't even seem to enforce, uh, one of our United States senators wearing a mask, the whole flight, apparently. So Allen Hall: it's not Dan: still spotty regulation across the industry. Allen Hall: Well, it's not regulation, right? Uh, the FAA can't oppose company Dan: policy, company policies, Allen Hall: right. And the companies can remove you from an aircraft for whatever reason they want it's denial of service. That's what it is. So, yeah. Uh, when we traveled, uh, on the, on the last flight, it was, I think there was one or to people who weren't wearing a mask, but you notice what happens is it kind of get shuttled to the back corner of the airplane. What seems to be part of the approach that at least Southwest was taking at the time. And I've heard that from other airlines that they try to take people who decided not to wear a mask for whatever that could be medical conditions, that dissolve variety of reasons why that would occur. Dan: Oh. So they know ahead of time. So it was just thinking to myself, I'm like, well, how would they know if they're not on the plane yet? Yeah. But I guess some people. Allen Hall: Some people with breathing problems, you know, it's, it's, it's a big deal. They have a mask on it. Doesn't make it easier to breathe. Dan: Sure. And this is true. This is true. So in today's show, we're going to cover, I've got a good, good smattering of topics. We're going to cover Jaunt Air Mobility's aircraft which uses ROSA technology, which is a slow rotor, uh, just really interesting, uh,