EP43 – Bombardier’s Wing Factory; Jaunt Explores Hybrid Fuel System & GM’s new EVTOL Concept?
GM just unveiled a new EVTOL concept - will it actually work? Bombardier has a high-tech wing factory - what makes it so unique? We also discuss Jaunt Air Mobility's pursuit of a potential hybrid power source and news of Archer partnering with Fiat Chrysler on the EVTOL front. 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! EP43 Transcript - Bombardier's Wing Factory; Jaunt Explores Hybrid Fuel System & GM's new EVTOL Concept? All right. We'll come back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's podcast. First thing we're gonna talk about in the new section, unfortunately is the, the crash of the recent 737 500 aircraft out in Indonesia. So we'll talk a little bit about that. In our second segment, we're going to talk about Bombardier.They have a pretty amazing factory where they produce wings and they're pretty just high-tech in general, Allen's worked there in the past. So we're gonna talk about some of their tech as far as their assembly line goes and all that stuff. And in our EVTOL segment today, we're going to talk about JASA merging it's general aviation and VTL certification.John exploring their fuel system to potentially extend the range, which is something we actually chatted about last week, Archer finding a production partner and GM their their crack at the EVTOL market. And how far it's now lagging behind. So, Allen, let's start with the Boeing seven 37 so that crashed out of Indonesia.It has gotten a lot of press, obviously, cause you know, terrible, terrible accident. But it wasn't in the air very long. And then it seems a plummeted 10,000 feet in less than a minute. And can you just shed some perspective on that? That seems like a really precipitous drop. Yeah. Thth the aircraft was at about 10,000 feet.It had taken off and headed over the, over the water and then just seem to disappear. And there were some reports from some ships nearby that watched the aircraft plummeted to the ocean, and then it satellite that the aircraft was essentially. Full nose, dive right into the water, which indicates really one of two things that the aircraft has, something, something severely wrong with it, then yeah, you can kind of get in those situations, you stall it and push the nose down and continue to push the nose down.And then obviously you will crash that sort of situation. But most aircraft, when they have some power plant problem of some sort, don't go plummeting downward like that. The airplanes are. Can glide. And you would think you would try to set it up to glide, but it just leads you to think that one of two things happen here, either the pilot slash pilots decided that for whatever reason they were disoriented or they were, and maybe in some cases there's been cases of suicide suicides that they just put the nose down and drove it into the water.The other possibility is you have some control flight surface. Anomaly where it just drives a nose down in the pilots. You can't fight it off. As soon as they find the black boxes for that aircraft are going to have a pretty good indication. And then in an hour or two, usually of what the flight parameters were, airspeeds attitudes cockpit.Cockpit voice recorder will tell you a lot. I could have some previous crashes, so there's a lot still to be learned here, but this is not, I think the, one of the first things that happen and every ticket held their breath. As soon as I saw this news was. Is it a, is it a max airplane, right? Is it something to do with the M cast system?You know, weird things happen? It doesn't sound like it's a dash 500. Right. And it was built back in the nineties. Is that26 years old? That plane? Yeah. Okay.So it's been around a long time. I'd also heard it was a former continental aircraft. It came from the United States originally flew l...