EP34 – Is the Airbus A380 Going Away? Bye Aerospace Gets Key Partnership & Joby Aviation Releases Patents
Joby Aviation has released numerous patents, giving a glimpse into their technology. Bye Aerospace partners with Korean company Aerospace9 in what looks like a very lucrative deal. Spirit Aerosystems revealed Q3 results, and we discuss the future of the Airbus A380, which one airline recently has phased out of commercial use. 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 EP34 - Is the Airbus A380 Going Away? Bye Aerospace Gets Key Partnership & Joby Aviation Releases Patents 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 34 and on today's show we've got some news some engineering and some evtol action for you today so number one we're gonna chat about the A380 one of airbus's largest offerings uh kind of being phased out it sounds like a recent incident with an a320 that was not down per se not almost down i don't think it was really almost down but it sounds like the pilots were very heavily effective which put them in a really scary situation uh by fumes coming in the cockpit which is crazy also we're going to chat a little bit about spirit era systems third quarter results and some optimism from their leadership in our engineering segment we're going to talk about by aerospace they've got an investment from a Korean company which sounds promising and lastly in the evtol segment we'll chat about Joby who has recently filed a bunch of patents which is starting to shed some light on some other technology so Allen first let's start with the a380 so Hi-fly which is one of only apparently 15 companies that ever leased or operated uh the a380 because they're such a darn big aircraft but they said they're planning to phase this out they've done three years of of leasing it and now they're gonna kind of move forward and swap their a380s for more a330s so is this a trend that you expect to continue yeah that's why the 747 has gone away also and that in the triple 7's having a little bit of struggle on the new development side is four engine airplanes and large uh multi-aisle airplanes are going away because international travel has gone to zero and it doesn't make any sense to have four engines anymore and as we there's some huge consolidation in the industry the a380 is is and it seems hard to believe because it hasn't been around all that long but the a380 it's going away and it'd be in a couple of years you won't be able to see it really maybe besides the museum and it's hard to think about the evolution of aircraft because we there's some aircraft that have been around so long that you just come ubiquitous that you could say 747 to pretty much anybody in the planet and they even know what you're talking about but they're in that same cycle there's been all kinds of airplanes that have come and gone and it takes a very unique aircraft to last tens and twenties and thirty year spans it just doesn't happen all that often so uh it is special that some of these airplanes have lived as long as they have and been in service as long as they have the a380 really wasn't one of them it was pushing a particular segment of the aircraft market the the large volume traffic market the upper end of the marketplace for the most part uh because you're burning a bunch of fuel and it just never and long haul too so it just didn't really make any sense after a while and and even though fuel prices are low right now it just there's just not a customer base for it it just really isn't and i think you'll see a lot of other airplanes kind of get stuck in that same mold anything that is really dedicated international travel routes is going to have problems for the next year or two until things s...