In this episode we dig into more layoffs in the aviation industry, including Spirit Aerosystems, who is slowing down their work for Boeing. The final Airbus A380s were delivered, marking the end of an era. In our aerospace engineering fails segment, we discuss United Flight 811 and how a cargo door lock nearly took down the entire plane...Lastly, we touched on Joby Aviation and others, discussing some new VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) technology.

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Full Transcript: EP15 - Spirit Aerosystems Stops Work; Final Airbus A380; Crash of United Flight 811; Electric VTOL Tech

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

Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall.

Dan: And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightening protection.

All right on. So another week, another episode, how's everything out there in Massachusetts

Allen Hall: Fine! Dan, you know, it's weird. We were seen to be coming out of the coronavirus thing just fine, but now we're in a drought. And I know last week we're talking about a, was it locus or Cicada? What's the crazy

Dan: books that we had.

Allen Hall: Yeah. So we've gone to from Corona to drought, insect infestations. So it's crazy right now, in a still. Mid June, you know, it's, it's supposed to be, it is nice outside.

Dan: It'll start raining snakes probably any day. So raining Cobra, dogs,

Allen Hall: any kind of small animal

Dan: snakes will come out of the toilet. That's what all, that's what it'll be.

Allen Hall: It's like that movie Snakes on a Plane, right? What's not

Dan: a big, which was, which was funny. It was legitimately funny. Cause people like laughed at it because they thought. That it was ridiculous, but it knew it was one of those movies that it was satire. Like they knew it were that it was ridiculous. And I thought it was really funny.

I really enjoyed it. I got a lot of, a lot of acclaim at the time. A lot of fanfare.

Allen Hall: We finally, we finally hit bare season here. So we had bear in the yard this past week with some colleagues. So it's a mama bear and a couple of Cubs gotta be careful around that.

Dan: Yeah.

Allen Hall: Spring, spring in the mountains.

Dan: Yeah, for sure.

So in today's episode, in our first segment or in our new segment, we've got, about spirit, you know, they're one of the big, part suppliers for Boeing.