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We talked about Southwest CEO Gary Kelly's letter to employees and the Cyclogyro EVTOL's Crazy Design - can it work? We also discussed Boeing 747 fuel tank ignition problems, the Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty, Learjet 75 Liberty and much more. 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: EP30 - Cyclogyro EVTOL's Crazy Design; Boeing 747 Fuel Tank Ignition Warning; Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty vs Learjet 75 Liberty & More 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 all right welcome back this is the struck podcast episode 3-0 the big 30. so moving right along here in today's episode we've got a bunch of different topics number one we're gonna talk a little bit about southwest airlines Gary Kelly the ceo released a letter to his employees recently just talking about the trouble that the company is in so we'll chat a little bit about that lots of boeing news this week uh first uh we'll talk about how boeing's consolidating dreamliner production in south carolina we're also going to chat a little bit about a bird strike actually in a chinese jet fighter which caused the plane to crash and he had to eject so we'll chat a little bit about that uh we'll also talk go back to boeing with the 747 and 767 receiving an faa warning about fuel tank ignition and what the implications might be there lastly we're going to talk about two different business jets the learjet liberty 75 and the airbus acj220 uh pretty interesting to kind of compare and contrast some of the the uh marketing ideas i guess uh in the upgrades of these two jets and then lastly in our evtol segment we'll chat about the cyclogyro one of the more bizarre designs that we've talked about here on the show and uh we'll chat also a little bit about volocopter and some other plans for the olympics so alan let's talk about southwest probably your favorite airline right i it is i would say it's mine but i had some i had a period of rough flights with them not physically rough but just delays delays and like they were telling me that my flight was delayed and then they undelayed it and it was like physically impossible to make the flight this happened three times something like that so anyway but i do respect southwest they've always had good leadership it seems like they are still doing great things as far as you know their leadership Gary Kelly is reducing his own salary to zero through the end of next year and he's asked for a 10 to 20 pay cut from many in leadership and he's trying to avoid layoffs so does this come as a surprise to you in general i mean do you think things are getting better or what's what's your take here well i don't think airline flights have really increased in terms of number of passengers very much over the last couple of months and with the prognosis that we are probably three months out right now between two and three months out from vaccinations and really protecting the most vulnerable not you know people like us which are pretty healthy for the most part are not going to get vaccinated first we're going to be probably last in line so it's going to you know drag out the airline thing i everybody is still there's still a lot of contention about whether it's safe to travel on an airplane and i think it's all about risk and reward and there everything we do today and everything you do every day is full of risk and we have to evaluate risk i do think one of the features of americans in general not to say we're not much different than other countries but i think there's this part of america which is uh we take risks and we do we risk freedoms larger than we do uh health consequences you see it all the time america america yeah well it just it just sort of sort...