In this episode, Allen and Dan discuss the idea of applying undue pressure to engineers as they moved to certification of the 737 MAX. They also explore some of Honeywell's new UAS tech and their autonomous landing technology. Lastly, they cover Vertical Aerospace's Seraph aircraft and discuss it's path to market and potential engineering missteps.

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Full Transcript: Struck Podcast EP17 - Did Boeing Apply Undue Pressure re: 737 MAX? We discuss Honeywell's UAS tech and Vertical Aerospace's Seraph aircraft.

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Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall.

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

Alright. Welcome back to another episode of the struck podcast, Allen. Well, it's going on this week. Well,

Allen Hall: uh, Boeing's under some pressure again, to get max deliveries go on. It sounds like the factories up and running, which is a good sign, but there's a lot of FAA in department of transportation pressure for undue pressure on the delegated, uh, engineers that help sign off on the design, which is just another bad thing for Boeing to be going through.

So, you know, better week in terms of flights, did you notice that the number of people flying this week is up another couple of ticks? It's not 20% up, but we're in the low thirties look like in terms of number of flights versus last year, which is a good sign and alongside numbers still, still goes up and that's a positive sign for the world economy and the U S economy and aviation overall.

And, uh, It also looks like the business community. The number of flights in the, on the business side is still pretty stable. It's down, it's down. I thought I heard 20 to 30% versus last year. That means we're still in the 70 percentile range in terms of business flight and the lease market. That's not bad in the lease market's doing really well.

Uh, the partial ownership market, uh, I listened to a podcast this past week with Honda jet deal with HondaJet, a lease program from his that wasn't a Honda. Own program, but as a Honda, they're using Honda jets to shuttle people around. And it sounds like they were doing pretty well there. They had five airplanes in their fleet and we're going to take delivery of another one here shortly.

And they're going to add a total of 10 new ones. So to get to 15 odd digits in their fleet. And you have to have a pretty, uh, rosy economic forecast to bring hot to basically triple your size of your company. Joe's airplane fleet. So I thought that was a, a good positive sign too. So some green shoots, right?

Dan: Yeah, a lot going on. Uh, so in today's in today's episode,