EP22 – Boeing’s Tough Sales Month; An Airbus A320 Gets Struck By Lightning, BAE & Jaunt Air Partner on Flight Controls, Plus VoltAero’s Hybrid Electric Aircraft, the Cassio
In this episode we discuss BAE's partnership with Jaunt Air Mobility, Boeing's continued trouble delivering airplanes, a lightning strike to an Airbus A320 in New Zealand and more. We also take a look at the VoltAero Cassio, a unique medium-range hybrid electric aircraft prototype and discuss its road to airworthiness certification. 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: Struck Podcast EP22 - Boeing's Tough Sales Month; An Airbus A320 Gets Struck By Lightning, BAE & Jaunt Air Partner on Flight Controls, Plus VoltAero's Hybrid Electric, Aircraft, the Cassio 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 are listening to the Struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. Allen: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on Struck, we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightning protection. Alright, I'll come back to the Struck podcast. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. And we've got a great show for you here today. And our first segment, we're going to cover some kind of scary news, uh, on an Airbus, uh, out of New Zealand was diverted after a lightning strike. So we'll, we'll chat a little bit about that. Um, Boeing seven 37 max might be delayed again. I mean, the saga continues, uh, we'll chat a little bit more about Boeing and the, the amount of jets they delivered this quarter or not this quarter, but this past month, which was crazy low, um, and a little weird quarantine run in from, uh, unlucky a plane full of people. So that's a, some. Kind of funny, uh, COVID news here, but in our engineering segment, we'll talk a little bit about, uh, BAE working with John's, um, on flight control actuators, and then our EVT O L of the week. We're going to talk about the connect air, uh, the volt Aero Casio, which is a four Cedar, um, actually maybe larger pass, uh, passenger capacity. So pretty interesting little pusher, plane Allen, what is going on? Allen: Well, it it's really strange aircraft news over the last week or two. I know it, it seems like airlines are struggling and they are, uh, but I got to say that the aircraft industry in terms of projects has been relatively busy and that's a good positive sign because it's all those little projects that get rolling that turn into larger products later on. So. I think so. Dan: Well, you said you've gotten some new, some new projects recently, right? Allen: Yeah. Several. Uh, and that always comes and sometimes it just comes just because everybody's sort of back from vacation, August early August, people like to take off and then they come back and, you know, mid August, September and things start rolling again. It's just kind of like the shutdown around Christmas and January is always chaos. Mid January is so positive. Some positive things going on out there. Dan: Well, that's, that's good. That's good news for sure. Everyone wants to get back to work and you see good people get rehired and the industry get back to normal. That's for sure. So let's on that note, let's start first with Boeing and how many jets they've delivered. So in July, 2018, and this is an article from Barron's. They deliver 39 jets, uh, this past July, they delivered four. So what do you think about these numbers? Obviously, this isn't surprising anyone given how insane this year has been. Again, my prediction is still, we still have four months to go to see if the crackin comes out of the deep sea. Um, just to cap off this crazy year. But, I mean, what is your sentiment about four planes being delivered? Allen: Well, the, the issue really for Boeing is the seven 37 max. And because of COVID, there's not a lot of international flights going on.