EP23 – Odds of Catching COVID on a Plane? Boeing In Trouble for Undue Pressure; Plus, Is Volocopter an EVTOL Leader?
In this episode, we discuss the odds of catching COVID-19 on a flight, as explained in an interesting new article that explores proximity to other passengers and more. Boeing may be fined $1.25 million in a clear-cut case of undue pressure applied to engineers in their South Carolina plant. And, Allen likes the Volocopter EVTOL design - is it a future winner in the market? 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! Transcript: Struck Podcast EP23 - Odds of Catching COVID on a Plane? Boeing In Trouble for Undue Pressure, Plus: Is Volocopter an EVTOL Leader? 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: 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 the Struck podcast episode 23, I'm your cohost, Dan Blewett. And in today's episode, we've got a lot of good stuff to cover first interesting article about the odds of catching COVID-19 on a flight, which uses some, uh, percentages. And this was actually a really interesting read. Glad we found this article. Um, we're gonna talk a little bit about the advantages and challenges of electric powered airliners, which are potentially in our future. Maybe allow along with, uh, with hydrogen as well. We know all these, all these technologies are being explored by all these major companies and our engineering segment. We're going to talk about Boeing in trouble, again, with a undue pressure that they've been applying to some safety reps out of their South Carolina, uh, factory. And. Man, that's been an ongoing thing. We've talked about that before and here we are again, and we're also going to chat a little bit about vertical airspace and Honeywell. They're doing some interesting stuff together. And lastly, in our electric texts segment, we're going to talk about Vola copter, which. Yeah, Alan, there you are. How are you, sir? You are very outspoken about these designs. And this one in my view is like the most, it looks like a toy plastic helicopter of all of them, but you're digging it. So why? Allen: Yeah, I think it's cool. I think it's cool. A bit of flying a human in it. So that puts him ahead of everybody else on my scale. Dan: Yeah. Well, your proof's in the pudding, I guess so. Well, let's, let's talk about this before we get there later, let's talk about the odds of catching covert in a flight. And so. Planes are flying an increasing amount. Obviously it's still knower like normal, but we're getting back there. And so far it doesn't seem like these are the, these are the vehicles of, of infection. Like, it doesn't seem like there's mass spread coming from airliners. And they're talking about in this article, I'm at a Bloomberg, which is really interesting. Uh, just about the odds of getting it. You know, the, basically this a researcher, mr. Barnett is talking about that you have a base sale, one in 4,300 chance of getting COVID-19 on a full two hour flight. Um, so yeah. What, what, what were your takeaways from this article? Allen: Well, that's the, that, that number is based upon just the, having somebody sitting next to you with a, uh, sitting extra for two hours and everybody's mast, obviously. So there's, uh, you know, the percentages kind of change depending on where you are in the aircraft rights. So. That's why the probabilities are so low that unless you're really sitting real close to that particular person. And there's some, some probabilities with that. I, it seems like the there's enough flight data and enough tracing history right now that there's, I think you could.