The eHang EVTOL took its first commercial flight in China - how important is this milestone? Boeing 737 MAX re-certification has entered its public comment period, and other 737 models have had an emergency airworthiness directive recently sent out. And, the big four airlines (United, Delta, American and Southwest) have had a rough Q2 in 2020 - how does it compare to a year ago?

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Full Transcript: EP19 eHANG EVTOL First Flight; Boeing 737 Woes; Are the Big Four Airlines in Trouble?

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

Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall.

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Hey, welcome back to the Struck Podcast is episode 19. I'm your cohost, Dan Blewett and in today's episode, got a bunch of really good topics, actually. So we're going to cover a bunch of things with the Boeing seven 37, their public comment period has begun. Uh, we're also gonna talk about. Jet time, which is an interesting, quick little story of Danish company.

Um, we're going to chat about some of the big four airlines as their losses this year have come to light and we're starting to compare to, you know, Q2 last year to Q2 this year. So we're going to chat about that. Uh, there's been some really interesting conversion, the, uh, Embraer prey tour legacy for fifties, actually have a conversion kit now to go into the parade tour 500.

We're gonna talk a bit, a little bit about the engineering that goes into a conversion of a, of a business jet, which is really fascinating thing to think about. And then we're also going to chat some more about a seven 37 or eight homes. Um, a airworthiness directive, just put out on the Boeing seven 37.

And lastly, we'll chat in our electric tech - the ehang EVTOL. Which just made the first passenger trip around a yang. Tell China. So let's jump in here with, uh, some of the seven 37 max stuff. So the public now has 45 days as of July 21st to comment on the proposed changes. So tell us, what does this, what does this mean?

Allen Hall: Well, for any sort of major, uh, changes, uh, special conditions, uh, it was all rural changes. That's always a public comment period because these changes end up being, having the, the rule of law essentially applied against them. And so when you make new regulations or laws, you want to have a public period to discuss those, to see what the public feedback is in this particular case.

I'm not sure what the public feedback is going to be. Uh, but the FAA has to respond to all the comments. And so they may get thousands of comments back on this, whether they're valid comments or not, you still have to respond to them and situatio...