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EP37 - Propeller Blade Advances, Uber Elevate & Animal Control at the Airport

All right. Welcome back to the podcast. On today today's episode, we are going to cover a couple of really interesting animal related, uh, airport issues. Number one, a poor Brown bear got struck by a seven 37. Um, so we'll talk about that wasps in Australia. Have been actually a wreaking havoc also on seven 30 sevens in their pitot tubes.

And we'll also talk about a lightning strike, uh, that prompted a New Zealand air, um, aircraft to divert. So, you know, keeping up with some recent, uh, lightning strike news and our engineering segment, we're going to chat about some interesting aerodynamics on, uh, on props and, uh, some aerodynamic stuff there.

We're going to talk about a interesting new bell rotor, uh, tail rotor concept. And lastly, in our, uh, EVTOL segment. Uh, I know Allen has some pretty interesting thoughts on Uber elevate and just the scope and the, uh, the future of their business, because there's a lot of stuff that seems very. Nebulous. And it's starting to sound a little bit like maybe some, uh, as Scott Galloway, the business, um, professor would say yoga Babel.

So Allen let's first talk about this, uh, bear strike. So that seems a really hard, how did the bear get on the runway, but also just really sad bears are super cool. Yeah, well, it's up in Alaska and they had a Brown bear and a Cub crossing the runway as a seven 37 was landing. And there's really not much to do about it.

And it, it acted like the pilot didn't even see it obviously, or w. What had gone around and it's an occasion, you see things about aircraft striking deer, right? So a deer is a slightly taller animal, tends to be, and aircraft hit those two is there's a lot of, um, in today's world, there's a lot of periphery fences around airports because of nine 11.

So there's not as much wildlife walking around on runways, but still wildlife gets in. And, and if the bears going from point a to point B and the run winds in the way, they're going to walk across it. And then this particular case, it just hit the inlet on the engine. And Dan, they then have the inlet and obviously it tilled the bear, which is just a bad situation.

So I'm sure everybody just feels horrible about the whole thing that I'm sure it passengers saw it. It just doesn't. This is nothing good about it, right? Yeah. Well, they said that Cub was on, on harmed. Yeah, not a poor guy, but poor gal mama bear. Yeah. I it's terrible. I've seen cattle on runways, but it happened here locally.

One time there was a cow or cattle, cattle had gotten loose and, uh, th the local airport didn't have a surrounding periphery fence...