EP38 – Chuck Yeager, Uber Elevate Sold to Joby Aviation & Boeing 737 Max Trust Issues
In this episode we discuss the life of test pilot Chuck Yeager, the trust issues that might surround the Boeing 737 Max and how the public will get past them, plus Uber Elevate's sale to Joby. 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! EP38 Transcript - Chuck Yeager, Uber Elevate Sold to Joby Aviation & Boeing 737 Max Trust Issues welcome back to the struck podcast I'm your co-host Dan Blewett and on today's show we've got a couple of major topics not as many uh scatter shot ones today but number one we're gonna chat about Chuck Yeager the uh the legendary pilot has passed away so i know Allen's got a a lot a lot to say about his legacy in our engineering segment we'll talk about the 737 max and specifically how consumers can get confidence back in this plane because i think it's really interesting most of us who are not aviation lifers aerospace you know engineers we don't really know what happens with the faa i mean we've heard on one hand this is a like the most technologically amazing plane like it's one of the best planes ever created but then it's crashed twice and it's been this villain of the story so we'll talk about how those two pieces get married and how people get back uh flying in the 737 max with confidence and lastly we'll talk about uber elevate who we did chat about last week and they were sold to gob aviation uh right after we had recorded that show so we're going to talk about uber and joby and that whole outlook so alan number one let's talk about chuck yeager so who was chuck yeager chuck yeager is probably the the most identifiable recognizable test pilot in the world he's a legend yeah yeah there's really two i think uh and on the soviet side it's trying to be yuri gagarin just because flying into space that's a big name is the test pilot and on the american side it tends to be chuck yeager there's a couple others in america that people could rattle off if you're in aviation but chicken was always the one and a lot of it had to do with the movie that was made based upon the book the right stuff uh that tom wolf wrote years and years ago back in the 80s and the thing about chuck egger and if if you're interested in aviation you should read chuck yeager's book the autobiography because it explains a lot about his his life uh he came from i believe it's west virginia if i remember correctly as a kid really young enlisted wanted to fly ended up in world war ii shooting down some enemy aircraft got shot down in france uh hid out in france him and another pilot i think he carried another injured pilot across the pyrenees mountains and if you've ever been to the pyrenees mountains you know because he had to get spain but if you've ever been to the pyrenees mountains or seen the pyrenees mountain it's like it's like the rockies in the united states those mountains are huge and it's cold up there and there's snow on them and they were evading uh german soldiers all the way to get to spain and once he got back into spain he kind of slipped back to the united states and then started flying again in combat and then after the war he ended up working in ohio at dayton ohio for a little while and then getting sent to edwards air force base or air base i guess at the time and uh becoming a test pilot obviously his most recognizable uh claim to fame was break the first person to break the sound barrier back in 1947 with the bell x1 which was essentially a rocket ship with wings and it was full of rocket motors and the and he did it while he had a couple of busted ribs and a banged up shoulder because he had he had fallen off a horse the night before uh wow yeah so he's sort of crazy he's not the biggest physical guy at the time a lot of touch pilots you couldn't it's like astronauts at the time they're not the tallest people you see in the world t...