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The Kittyhawk Heaviside EVTOL aircraft is impressive, and has been flying recently and making headlines. But with an engineering team that is very small, will they actually have the staff to get it to market? Blue Force Technologies is a leader in carbon fiber, and they have some techniques that seem to be pushing the industry to new limits. We also discuss the VoltAero Cassio hybrid electric aircraft, Airbus deliveries surging and a commercial airliner caught in a terrible hailstorm that shattered the windshield. 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: EP31 - Will the Kittyhawk Heaviside EVTOL Actually Reach the Market? Plus Blue Force Composites New Carbon Fiber Molding Techniques 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 to the struck podcast this is episode 31. on today's show in our news segment we're going to chat a little bit about airbus so they've got uh an increase in deliveries this past month month which is uh great to see number two a really scary moment a hail storm uh cracked a windshield of a recent flight and we're gonna talk a little bit about covet and the odds of getting it uh on a flight so it seems like it's actually quite low which i think all of us or a few of us would have predicted many many months ago when we're you know still in the grips of the uncertainty of it all but some new data is pretty interesting suggesting that you're pretty unlikely to catch on a flight in our engineering segment we'll talk about blue force composites some of the interesting work that blue force technologies is doing and we're going to talk about the VoltAero Cassio which is a quirky hybrid electric aircraft and then lastly in our EVTOL segment we're going to talk about the Kittyhawk Heaviside which is flying and they're kind of making some waves recently but I think Allen's got some strong views here on the overall scope of the EVTOL certification process and whether some of these companies are actually going to make it to the finish line so Allen let's start with airbus deliveries are up this makes you excited i'm sure yeah it's good to see some airplanes being delivered for once uh airbus sold about 57 airplanes in september uh i'm sure exactly 57 - 57 it's an easy number to remember uh that they're probably clinking the shame champagne glasses and toulouse because that is a decent number that's the highest number it's been all year and i think they're hoping that it continues to rise uh that's in comparison to Boeing's 11 aircraft sold in september so there's a five to one difference between Boeing and airbus which i'm sure makes Toulouse excited to hear that uh but it does i think that the bigger picture here is that aircraft sales and deliveries are not so much sales but deliveries are starting to happen and there's a small but growing demand for aircraft i think that will continue as we start to come on the back side of COVID even though it doesn't feel like it i think uh for the most part there is a big uh positive change in covet and with vaccines coming relatively soon i think we're gonna be looking forward and hopefully some of these airlines are looking forward to and start picking up some airplanes because when the demand hits people will gonna go on vacation i i don't know how they're not gonna go on vacation after being stuck in their homes for literally a year i think there's gonna be a lot of travel once everybody feels comfortable they're gonna get out and they're gonna spend some money and the airlines want to be ready for that yeah well it says the bulk of the delivery so 43 of the 57 were a320s which is narrow body yep but question for you i know very little about ...