In Struck episode 11 we discussed propeller planes and what happens when lightning strikes. Propellers used to be made of wood, then aluminum and now carbon fiber, but leading edge erosion and protection is critical, so how do manufacturers plan for this?

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Struck Podcast EP11 Transcript: Propeller Technology and Prop Plane Lightning Protection

Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy.

You're listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. 

Allen: I'm Allen hall 

Dan: and here on Sruck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace, engineering, and lightning protection.

Allen, how are you doing? Episode 11 we're really getting up there. 

Allen: Yeah. Exciting.

Dan:  We're 10% deep. 10% more than we had last week. 

Allen: Oh, that's true. 

Yeah. That's good. Good math right there. 

It's ready to go for a philosophy

major, right? 

Dan: Yeah. Gonna be going to continue getting, getting lower and lower as we go.

Well. Oh, that's true too. Right? It's a declining return on investment. 

Right. So, yeah, this is rough. This is rough. So today's episode we're going to chat about, um, leading edges on, uh, on prop planes, uh, and some of just the electrical problems that can cause like noise issues and obviously like the lightening implications.

Yeah. Um, cause there's obviously a lot of different types of props. There's different ways of combating that stuff. So that's kind of on our docket today. That's gonna probably. Be a pretty widespread conversation it sounds like. But first things first, what's your favorite airline? Oh, you have to pick one.

Who do you go with? 

Allen: American and in America 

Dan: In America. 

Allen: Southwest. 

Dan: Southwest. 

Allen: It isn't because I like them either. Uh, because I, I really. The thing about Southwest is so, well, it was so full. Every year, every flight I've been on with Southwest, and probably the last two or three years has been 100% full. Uh, but you got to give them some CRA, a little bit of credit that the.

Flight staff is very amenable, helpful, upfront, cheery, and you do get on off the airplane pretty fast and they fly a lot of different places and it's pretty clean cut. So you can put some luggage on the airplane and they get charged a whole bunch of money. Yeah. Southwest, 

Dan: Southwest, I do like their baggage system.

I'll give them that. I had a couple of rough experiences, uh, like the last, within the last two years kind of soured me on it. But I do agree with everything you just said. It's nice when you're on like Delta or American, they'll have power outlets on the seats that someone doesn't have yet. 

But Southwest has the free, and I don't know if other airlines do this.

Maybe Delta does,