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Transcript: Struck Aerospace Engineering Podcast EP36 - Boeing 737 Max Returns; Wisk Partners with NASA; Wing Shape & Aerodynamics

All right. Welcome back. This is the struck podcast, episode 36. Uh, in today's episode, we're going to cover. A recent lightening puncture, um, in a ups seven 47 Radome. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Uh, Korea has a fun new offering where you can basically get in a plane and go nowhere and come back.

So we're going to talk about the state of the airline industry. A lot of Boeing, 737 max news. Uh, obviously the FAA. Granted it's a airworthiness certificate. So we're gonna talk about that. And also some of the countries that are still not allowing the Boeing seven 37 max to fly in our engineering segment, we're gonna talk about the BMW electric powered flying wingsuit, just fascinating.

And we're gonna talk about the sweep of wings, carbon fiber, reinforced plastic, and some other, uh, Wing shape, uh, considerations. And then lastly, in our EBTL segment, we're gonna talk about whisk and NASA and a little bit of, um, collaboration, uh, between them recently. So Alan, number one, Ups had a radon punctured, huh?

Yeah, they did. The FAA had an incident noticed, uh, over the weekend that said a seven 47 that had departed from what I can tell departed Portland, Oregon, and landed up in Alaska and Anchorage had a radon. Puncture right in the nose. And that's the only damage description they had, which was odd and, uh, did a little digging on it to see if there was any photos of course, landing in Anchorage, Alaska on a ups in the middle of the nighttime is there's no one out there to take a picture of it.

With that radon will end up in some repair facility somewhere across the United States, more slightly. And, uh, it's a, it's an unusual thing. She don't, we hear a lot about, uh, radon damage to seven 47 is that must occur. But that radon was ancient in terms of this design, it was designed back in the seventies.

And it uses metal bars for lightening protection, which are pretty standard Boeing fare. And the, the only issue is the sort of the, the front part of that radon was really doesn't have any lightning protection on it at all. So it would seem theoretically possible. You're going to get a puncture in it every once in a while, but it's just kind of the wrong time of year, too.

It's November. There's not a lot of thunderstorms going on. Maybe there are in the Northwest, uh, but. Evidently took a puncture. So it was a significant enough that the FAA or somebody had reported it. Well, that's key piece of news. Yeah.