The United States Senate released their scathing report on Boeing - but was it justified? Allen weighs in on the blame Boeing continues to take and whether or not Senate staffers should be named in these reports. Joby Aviation had its EVTOL design approved by the Air Force - is this a big deal? And, is hydrogen power-- a la the HY4 aircraft that just completed a successful demonstration -- gaining traction?

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EP41 Transcript - Hydrogen HY4 Aircraft Takes Flight; Joby Approved by USAF, and The Problem with the Senate Report on Boeing

Welcome back to the struck podcast. These episodes we're going to cover in our first section, a bunch of stuff on Boeing. Obviously the Senate, uh, just released their big report, a rather scathing report on some FAA and Boeing. Perhaps improprieties. So we'll talk a bunch about that today in our second segment about engineering, we're going to chat about the H Y four a, which is a vehicle that just made its first flight over in Slovenia.It's a hydrogen fuel cell powered hybrid electric vehicle or aircraft. So we'll talk about that in our section. Well, you've got a couple of good things, a little bit on Joby being approved by the air force, an update on and John air mobility, and also some interesting news about LA. Creating a partnership for urban air mobility to do some planning about how that might come about in Los Angeles.So, Allen first thing here, obviously the Senate came out with a pretty big report and a very far reaching as well and wagging their fingers some more at Boeing who. Well, as we were just talking about off-camera I can't stay, I can't stay out of the news. Um, but this is raising questions about and propriety and reaction time and all this different stuff.But, um, what are the key takeaways for you that are really raising eyebrows? Cause you know, there's a bunch,well, the report. Covers so much territory involving the FAA and some part Boeing, some part other airlines, uh, uh, not necessarily affiliated with Boeing and sense and Southwest airlines, because Southwest is a big user of.Sevens obviously. Yeah, but it just seems like any time that there's some issue involving the FAA, that didn't go the way that a particularly employee wanted to go, that that ended up in this report. So it's like, uh, uh, beans of kicking the FAA around, uh, from a congressional side and it did it. It doesn't really have a point.It's just seems like there's just a series of, uh, of, um, disgruntled employees slash, um, uh, maybe some poor performance on some, or maybe, maybe there are some employees looking the other way at the FAA for particular aspects, uh, that just get cumulated and, and. Stuck in a report and an issue to as how you look, how bad the FAA is.That is not, uh, a valid exercise. It doesn't help anybody. There's there's no one that's going to read this and go, Oh yeah, well we need a correct ABC. That's not, what's going to happen here. And in fact, during some part of the report has to deal with, uh, uh, congressional subpoenas and employees of the FAA slash DOD department of transportation.Not showing up for, or not responding to the subpoenas and maybe there's some blackballing or, uh, obfuscation that's going on here. That's that is just that's. First of all, it's mind reading. And, and second of all, it's not backed by facts.