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This week, blade expert Dr. Rosemary Barnes, Dan Blewett, and Allen Hall discuss a conflict between the EU and the UK, New Jersey to reap $150 Billion in private investment, and Nordex deals with a cyber attack. Plus, is Facebook a source of wind energy misinformation, and a wind turbine noise issue winds its way through the Australian courts. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! 

Tom Warner, lightning researcher, talked through the old vs new way of understanding lightning, multiple attachments to spinning wind turbines turbines, upward vs downward lightning, how tall objects actually cause more lightning strikes, and more. Follow up with Tom on his website or watch slow-motion videos on his YouTube channel. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - Tom Warner, Lightning Researcher 00:00:01:00 - 00:00:09:19UnknownI picture you and like your copilot, like in that scene in Caddyshack, just you're getting pelted by three inch hail, you're like, Well, I don't think the heavy stuff is going to come down for quite some time now. 00:00:09:23 - 00:00:28:11UnknownYeah, it was. It was pretty. It was pretty loud. In fact, they put a microphone right on the on the front of the canopy. We recorded two channels of audio, the pilot's comments and then this other hail Mike, and that scientists could actually kind of gauge the size of the hail just from the loud loudness from that 00:00:28:11 - 00:01:01:06Unknownmicrophone. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes. And this is the Up Time podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right. Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. 00:01:01:15 - 00:01:20:08UnknownI'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's episode. We've got a great guest here today, a lightning expert. Tom Warner. So Tom has a really interesting background, which we'll get into. He was also a pilot in the Air Force and flew this legendary aircraft that will get into a little bit called the T28 storm penetrating aircraft. 00:01:20:13 - 00:01:37:18UnknownAnd what this really means is that it was someone taking aircraft up into storms with the intention of seeing how they did getting struck by lightning, getting hit by a six inch hail. All this crazy stuff in the name of learning more about storms and lightning and how they all interact with planes. 00:01:38:02 - 00:01:51:04UnknownAnd also, he's done a lot of research and photography, high speed video on wind turbine. So a lot of stuff that you'll see in high speed video. You can see how lightning propagates the leaders. Lots of stuff that has never been seen before. 00:01:51:12 - 00:02:10:00UnknownSo, Allan, give me a little more context into Tom because to say like, you're a lightning expert, but Tom is like the lightning expert for lightning experts. Yeah, he's a resource for a lot of people because he's published so much and he's been involved in lightning reaching up from towers, and it's a whole series of papers and 00:02:10:00 - 00:02:28:19Unknownresearch. If you go to his website, you can download some of them or find out where you can get them that it was research oriented on wind turbines and also tall towers that were propagating leaders up into the sky and creating these thunderstorm lightning events. 00:02:29:04 - 00:02:50:04UnknownAnd also, I think it's one of the early places that I saw where a lightning strike far down field can trigger reactions in the cloud and create the situation where these were tall towers. White light wind turbines can start reaching out to the sky simultaneously, and we've seen a lot more images like that in the last couple 00:02:50:04 - 00:03:11:14Unknownof years. Some of them from Tom, some from other researchers in the U.S. and Spain and around the world. But that knowledge of where things are happening in the cloud and it has an impact on the way lightning approaches, wind turbines and tall towers,

Dr. Hui Hu, a leading researcher on aerospace and wind turbine icing physics and aerodynamics, joined us to talk about the research his lab is churning out, and the implications it may have for the wind industry. Plus, we discuss the latest TransAlta foundation news - all 50 turbine foundations will need to be replaced in Kent Hills, spelling a huge financial disaster for that project. We also get into a debate on ExxonMobil's net-zero emissions goals and whether offshore turbine foundations should be left underwater...forever. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Show Transcript - with Dr. Hui Hu on Wind Turbine Icing 00:00:00:02 - 00:00:03:02Scientist is not just, you know, 00:00:03:15 - 00:00:06:00after that dinner, just nothing to do. 00:00:06:05 - 00:00:08:10We are looking into something else now. 00:00:08:20 - 00:00:10:19And not only the banana. 00:00:10:19 - 00:00:13:21Also look at the other creaturesthat live in 00:00:14:07 - 00:00:17:00and try to get inspiration for all this 00:00:17:00 - 00:00:20:09interesting observations. 00:00:25:11 - 00:00:26:13Welcome back. 00:00:26:13 - 00:00:28:00I'm Dan Blewett. 00:00:28:00 - 00:00:32:18I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes,and this is the Uptime podcast 00:00:32:23 - 00:00:36:03bringing you the latest in wind energy,tech news 00:00:36:03 - 00:00:37:18and policy. 00:00:47:21 - 00:00:50:18Welcome back to the UptimeWind Energy podcast. 00:00:50:18 - 00:00:53:01On today's show,we've got a great friend of up time. 00:00:53:05 - 00:00:53:18Our guest 00:00:53:18 - 00:00:58:07today is Dr Hui Hu and he is an aerospaceand mechanical engineer by trade, 00:00:58:07 - 00:01:02:13and he's the director of the Advanced FlowDiagnostics and Experimental 00:01:02:13 - 00:01:07:00Aerodynamics Laboratory and AircraftIcing Physics and A.I. 00:01:07:09 - 00:01:10:21Deicing TechnologyLab at Iowa State University. 00:01:10:21 - 00:01:14:09So he's going to join us todayto talk about his extensive research 00:01:14:17 - 00:01:18:04and icingand deicing different types of ice, 00:01:18:12 - 00:01:21:10some of the inspiration from naturethey've gotten 00:01:21:10 - 00:01:23:10in some of these new coatingsthat are being developed. 00:01:23:20 - 00:01:25:16And it's a really fascinatingconversation. 00:01:25:16 - 00:01:30:02Dr Hu who is going to be with usin just a few moments. 00:01:30:11 - 00:01:32:22And before that,we'll talk about ExxonMobil. 00:01:32:22 - 00:01:36:07They've announced net zero emissions plansby 2050. 00:01:36:08 - 00:01:38:15We'll talk aboutif that's really a relevant goal. 00:01:38:15 - 00:01:40:14They've taken a lot of flak for that. 00:01:40:14 - 00:01:44:04We'll talk about 3D printed magnetsand some of the implications therein. 00:01:44:13 - 00:01:47:13We'll talk about cracksin a wind turbine foundation 00:01:47:13 - 00:01:48:21that they found in a recent forum. 00:01:48:21 - 00:01:50:20We discussed this on a previous episode, 00:01:50:20 - 00:01:51:13but it looks like now 00:01:51:13 - 00:01:54:22they're going to replaceall 50 foundations from that wind farm. 00:01:54:22 - 00:01:58:08And after the interview,we'll talk about Japan's spending $43 00:01:58:08 - 00:02:02:15million on studiesregarding undersea cables, some new uses 00:02:02:15 - 00:02:06:21from Britain on undersea cablesand whether turbine reefs 00:02:07:11 - 00:02:10:00might be a really huge, beneficial effect. 00:02:10:18 - 00:02:14:00Really, the likes of which we haven't seenbefore as far as underwater

In the final episode of 2021, in which we saw huge growth in offshore wind, Allen and Rosemary give their big takeaways from the year along with predictions for what's to come in 2022. Will we see 20MW wind turbines? A development slowdown due to inflation? Regulatory hurdles? Go here for the video about McDonald's ice cream machines mentioned on the show. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP93 of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast 00:00:37:11 - 00:00:38:13Welcome back. 00:00:38:13 - 00:00:40:00I'm Dan Blewett. 00:00:40:00 - 00:00:44:18I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes,and this is the Up Time podcast 00:00:44:23 - 00:00:48:03bringing you the latest in windenergy, tech news 00:00:48:03 - 00:00:49:18and policy. 00:00:59:22 - 00:01:00:06All right. 00:01:00:06 - 00:01:02:17Welcome back to the UptimeWind Energy podcast. 00:01:02:18 - 00:01:05:03I'm your co-host, Dan Blewett on today'sshow, 00:01:05:03 - 00:01:08:14we're going to do a sort of 2021a year and wrap up. 00:01:08:23 - 00:01:11:20So aside from a couple topicswhich we're going to talk about, 00:01:12:04 - 00:01:16:00including balsa wood harvesting, obviouslythat's used in wind turbine blades. 00:01:16:00 - 00:01:18:06And as they've expanded in size, 00:01:18:06 - 00:01:21:08that harvesting has sped up,which is threatening the rainforest. 00:01:21:10 - 00:01:22:13We'll talk through that 00:01:22:13 - 00:01:25:16as well as maybe some possiblereplacements for that material 00:01:26:09 - 00:01:27:14in the near future. 00:01:27:14 - 00:01:31:07What about Germany phasing outnuclear power and Siemens Gamesa 00:01:31:07 - 00:01:35:09accepting bids to sell off the winddevelopment arm of their business? 00:01:35:09 - 00:01:37:08And then, as we do our sort of 2021 00:01:37:08 - 00:01:40:16wrap up, we have five questionswe're going to throw to our experts here 00:01:41:05 - 00:01:42:09about, you know, developments. 00:01:42:09 - 00:01:45:13They see predictionsand maybe some surprising things 00:01:45:13 - 00:01:47:07about the year behind us. 00:01:47:07 - 00:01:49:16So look for thatin the second half of today's show. 00:01:49:16 - 00:01:53:15Before we get going, be sure to subscribeto Uptime Tech News, which you will find 00:01:53:15 - 00:01:56:23in the show notes of this podcast,as well as Rosemary's YouTube channel. 00:01:57:07 - 00:01:58:17Where is you doing twice a month? 00:01:58:17 - 00:02:02:03Live streamsand all things renewable and wind energy 00:02:02:03 - 00:02:05:05shows a great job there, so check outboth in the description below. 00:02:05:16 - 00:02:09:22So first thing on the docket today,we're going to talk about balsa wood. 00:02:09:22 - 00:02:13:10So obviously this is used structurallyin wind turbine blades, and the bigger 00:02:13:10 - 00:02:18:08they get, the more this has been usefuland necessary to increase harvesting. 00:02:18:17 - 00:02:21:08And of course, just like anythingas demand goes up, 00:02:21:08 - 00:02:24:16this is putting strainon this natural resource. 00:02:24:18 - 00:02:28:15Rosemary, obviously working for Elm WindPower, you have a pretty good idea of, 00:02:28:16 - 00:02:31:16you know, the vendor relationshipsand all of the materials 00:02:31:16 - 00:02:32:23that go into these blades. 00:02:32:23 - 00:02:35:00Can you take us through this situationwith balsa wood? 00:02:35:00 - 00:02:38:09Like, where does balsa woodfit in to blade construction? 00:02:38:10 - 00:02:38:18Yeah. 00:02:38:18 - 00:02:42:18So Balsa Wood is a sand...

The Ehang 216 may be certified in a few months, according to new reports. Is this realistic? Plus, is the idea of a supersonic EVTOL feasible or even remotely reasonable? We also discuss the current pilot shortage in the US, the Jetson One sales numbers, Archer news and more. [powerpress Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript welcome back to the Struck airspace engineering podcast i'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show got a great lineup first we'll talk about the rather rather desperate pilot shortage that's now gripping uh the u.s and also globally we'll talk about rolls-royce they've been testing one of their electric generators now exceeding one megawatt output which is insane we'll talk about uh hydrogen powered airliners the uk has revealed a plan that they think they can make a long-haul airliner work we'll see if alan agrees we'll also chat a little bit through elon musk's views on the matter obviously he has strong views on electric and hydrogen in the future in general and his are a little bit controversial when it comes to hydrogen power in our EVTOL segment we'll talk a little bit more about elon musk we'll talk about archer ehang jetson one uh which their sort of hobbyist uh aircraft have pretty much sold out by this point and a little uh story about apple car engineers and how they're starting to flee the nearly three trillion dollar company so alan let's start with this pilot shortage i struggle to understand these things a little bit obviously there's shortages of workers everywhere but the world hasn't i mean the world has changed but where did all the people go alan why do we have such a pilot shortage it seems like you know two years ago life was relatively normal obviously covid was a big deal and still is but how could we be desperate that many pilots at this point it doesn't seem to add up to me well when the when covet hit there was a lot of furloughs and pilots got laid off and in that interim because it was long enough it's been a year and a half two years going on two years now that pilots are educated people they can they can find jobs in other industries and they did and now that uh some of them are being recalled back they they don't want to go back in particular maybe they found a better paying job i mean they found a job with better better hours or less stress or a variety of variables there and i there if you look at the tsa numbers we're at about 85 90 of 2019 levels so the the flights at least the flights in the united states are pretty close to where we were and that means there's a lot of airplanes flying internally into the united states overseas not so much still and those tend to be kind of the smaller airplanes the 737s airbus a320s 319s uh the 737 maxes are going to be big in that space and so the most senior people don't tend to fly those airplanes it tends to be the the the towards the youngers younger ages that are flying those airplanes and i think they have other opportunities and and now that uh the the airlines are looking to expand and we have all the evital pilots uber flight kind of pilots that are going to be needed there's going to be a big demand on pilots and i i don't know if we have the infrastructure to support it because 50 years ago most pilots came out of the military i think now it's not nearly that many come out of the maritime like they're coming out of places like embry riddle and in schools like that or flight schools and they're just earning their wings over time by flying freight and cargo and all those different kind of airline airplane flights so you're just getting a different different graphic coming into the marketplace uh and the requirements for hours have gone up the fa jumped the number of hours required so he c...

Sydney Seaplanes placed a large aircraft order from Eve Urban Air Mobility, a division of Embraer. Will it work out for them? The Airbus A350 has lightning protection issues stemming from expanded metal foils and paint peeling, leading to a contentious relationship between Airbus and Qatar. We also discuss new EVTOL designs, FAA regulations and more. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript Sydney Seaplanes Adds EVTOL Order, Airbus A350 Has Lightning Protection Problems & More 00:00:00:05 - 00:00:24:10UnknownThis episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the Struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on Struck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. 00:00:28:09 - 00:00:43:05UnknownAll right, welcome back to the Struck Aerospace Engineering podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got number one something for Allen to really dig his teeth in. We've got some issues with Airbus aircraft and their lightning protection systems. 00:00:43:15 - 00:01:01:16UnknownSome paint feeling some controversy over expanded metal foils, and there's a pretty heavy dispute between Qatar Airways and Airbus. We'll dove into that. We're going to talk about the Dayton Zoning Board has voted to demolish the site of the Wright Brothers first bike shop. 00:01:02:08 - 00:01:20:18UnknownYou know, disappointing decision, obviously for a huge, huge end of innovators in aviation. The grandfathers of aviation. We'll talk about United deciding to put passengers on a safe flight. Not completely safe for one engine will be completely powered by sustainable airline fuel. 00:01:21:12 - 00:01:40:04UnknownAlso, seems like a curious decision. We'll talk about Pratt, they've announced an update to their A320 neo engine. It's going to have more thrust, and we'll see how that might affect their sales and their efficiency. And lastly, in our video segment, we'll talk about Sydney Sea planes striking a big deal for 50 aircraft of Eve Urban Air Mobility 00:01:40:12 - 00:01:54:09Unknownfour passenger EVTOL. They do a lot of commuter and tourism flights down Australia, so sounds like a really interesting proposition there. And lastly, we talked a little bit about Joby's Simulator, which Allen that lacks foot pedals, right? 00:01:54:09 - 00:02:12:10UnknownAnd doesn't have a rudder. Is that right? It's a totally different configuration than most airplanes. Yeah, it seems really interesting and unique, to say the least. So let's start with Airbus and Qatar Airways. So Reuters has obtained a number of photos which are pretty shocking. 00:02:12:10 - 00:02:27:21UnknownThey they make this seem like almost a home brew, a homebrew thing like you don't see paint peeling this badly. Qatar is very unhappy with Airbus. And both sides are sort of in a little bit of a tug of war about, you know, what's going on, who's going to fix this and how big of a deal this 00:02:27:21 - 00:02:46:13Unknownis. Yeah. So the A350 is primarily a carbon fiber airplane. It like the 787, so they're comparable airplanes in that sense. And the the what Airbus has done is they've used an expanded what the article say is expanded copper foil as lightning protection. 00:02:46:13 - 00:02:59:04UnknownAnd so what you do is on the top layer, the carbon fiber, you sort of embed this, this mesh is copper mesh into it and that access your lightning protection and then that mesh gets over coated with paint. 00:02:59:04 - 00:03:14:04UnknownSo the outer surface looks white like most airplanes do. So you kind of cutting this three layer thing,

Byron Martin, CEO of Teknologize, joined us to talk about the Vestas ransomware attack and the great concept of cyber resilience: How companies can rebound after a cyberattack like the one Vestas recently suffered. Plus, we discussed global air pollution levels, India's offshore wind potential and infrastructure challenges therein, the Save Right Whales Coalition and got the engineers' take on the floating wind turbine structure Pivot Buoy from X1 Wind. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - EP90 - Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience with Byron Martin of Teknologize This episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPs upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning 00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Up Time podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. 00:00:59:21 - 00:01:13:00UnknownAll right. Welcome back to the Uptime Wind energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. We've got a great lineup and we also have a friend of up time joining us, Byron Martin, CEO of Teknologize, which is an IT firm in Washington state. 00:01:13:00 - 00:01:29:22UnknownHe's going to be joining us to talk about the implications of the Vestas cyber attack. Obviously, we mentioned this on the show in a past episode just recently when the story broke. But we wanted to get Byron, who's one of our our repeat guests now, since he's an expert, it's really kind of walk us through this. 00:01:29:23 - 00:01:47:19UnknownYou know, the response, the cyber attack and his term, which you learn today, cyber resilience, which is not just trying to prevent attack, but also how quickly can your organization bounce back once you have in breach? So really great talk with Byron will jump to that in about 15 minutes before that. 00:01:47:19 - 00:02:03:22UnknownWe're talking about air pollution. We're concerned about India's offshore wind potential and why that still is sort of waiting in the wings. And we're going to talk about Rosemary's neck of the woods with the star of the South Offshore Wind project, which has gotten some new legislation just passed, which is going to help pave the way for 00:02:03:22 - 00:02:18:07Unknownthat one. And then after our interview with Mr. Martin, we'll talk about a self orienting floating wind turbine prototype that's just now being christened and the Save Right Whales Coalition and how that's impacting offshore wind here in the U.S.. 00:02:18:17 - 00:02:34:05UnknownSo before we get going, be sure to subscribe to our uptime at tech news, which you'll find in the show notes of this podcast, as well as Rosemary's excellent YouTube channel on renewable energy. So let's get started. Rosemary, we this crazy article from Al Jazeera. 00:02:34:20 - 00:02:50:10UnknownThey did a great job with it, some infographics and sharing some some data here on the 100 most polluted cities around the globe. And unfortunately, 94 are within India, China and Pakistan. Obviously, you know, you've especially harped on the idea that, look, we're all in this together.

Vestas had a cyberattack recently and shut down IT systems to help contain it. How bad was it? Plus, a recent article pegged microgrids as a potential source of 500,000 jobs by 2030 - is this realistic? And, how do wind turbines protect themselves in high winds - does feathering and idling actually work better than braking? We also discuss underwater drone missions by Rovco seeking out unexploded mines and bombs, and more. TRANSCRIPT - Vestas Cybersecurity Attack; Can Microgrids Create Half a Million Jobs? This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightningprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the UpTime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy.All right. Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. We've got a really full docket number one, we'll talk about Vestas and the recent cybersecurity incident. It's a scary thing for all businesses all around the world. 00:01:13:12 - 00:01:28:22UnknownSo talk about what that meant for them and if they're back up and running. We'll talk about Siemens energy. Their CEO has mentioned that Siemens Gamesa is doing well progressing and their turnaround, and whether we could expect a complete takeover from where they finished buying the rest of their shares. 00:01:28:22 - 00:01:46:23UnknownThey own about 67% of the company now. So about Shell, they've snapped up a majority stake in another offshore wind project off of iron off of Ireland in North Dakota. Some high winds have shut down wind turbines, which we know that this happens, but it's still always a curious about when it does. 00:01:47:15 - 00:02:02:13UnknownWind speeds up to 70 miles per hour. In that case, we'll talk about some unexploded mines from past wars just laying lurking in the North Sea and Rove Co's drones, which are trying to help locate them. We'll talk about microgrids. 00:02:03:07 - 00:02:21:19UnknownThe annual energy storage modeling some interesting stuff there. We'll talk about more supply chain crisis, whether that's going to continue to really affect the transition to clean energy. And lastly, we'll talk about artificial seaweed power. Is this the next big thing? 00:02:21:19 - 00:02:38:17UnknownI'm sure Rosemary has got strong feelings there. Spoiler, it's probably not. But before we get going, be sure to subscribe to the podcast in general. You also find Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update about the show and great news from around the web. 00:02:39:06 - 00:02:51:08UnknownAnd be sure to subscribe to Rosemary's YouTube channel, which you'll find in the show notes and description as well. She's been doing live streams and all of her regular content on everything renewables and wind energy. So let's get started. 00:02:51:11 - 00:03:05:02UnknownObviously, the, you know, cybersecurity is on everyone's front of mind nowadays. It seems like every other week there's another company that's been hit hard this week, it's been investors. So but there still seems like a little bit mum is the word at the moment. 00:03:05:03 - 00:03:22:17UnknownThey have mentioned that their crisis management team is on its. And besides that, I'm not really sure what the extent of of what's happened. Alan, what's your take here? Obviously, there's not a lot of information that we've found in the news cycle yet, but it sounds like maybe investors is OK. 00:03:23:01 - 00:03:33:22UnknownYeah,

As wind energy OEMs scramble to control costs, more and more and forging partnerships. Vestas has locked-in costs with Maersk - is this a game-changer? Plus, Bill Gates is pushing nuclear power hard in the U.S. - is this a safe diversification of power production? And, a thermoplastic 13m blade was recently 3D printed, SGRE is now producing green hydrogen from one of their pilot projects, and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Show Transcript 00:00:00:13 - 00:00:21:08UnknownThis episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPs upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning 00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. 00:00:59:20 - 00:01:11:05UnknownWelcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a bunch of great topics we'll talk about number one. Bill Gates pushing for a new new nuclear power plant in Wyoming. 00:01:11:05 - 00:01:23:23UnknownWe'll talk about the future of nuclear and why it's getting some pushback from the wind industry and others. We'll talk about Vestas and Maersk. Rosemary is going to come out. She's going to maul me about my pronunciation of this in a moment. 00:01:24:13 - 00:01:42:22UnknownTheir container deal and what that means for transportation for them. We'll talk about a French couple who has won a lawsuit about their health in relation to a wind farm that was installed near their homes. Well, some of the Dominion's explanation of their 10 billion dollar price tag for their coastal Virginia wind projects. 00:01:43:08 - 00:01:55:08UnknownThere was a blade that fell off a wind turbine in Freuler. Maybe I got that one right? Could be over two. We'll see my pronunciation tonight. We'll talk about it. Roll with our 3-D printing approach for wind turbine blades. 00:01:55:08 - 00:02:12:23UnknownThey've got some new thermoplastic stuff that they've just announced. Siemens Gamesa has produced their first green hydrogen from a project. And lastly, we'll talk about a drone attack on a power grid. This is certainly not can be the last attack of its sort, and we've actually mentioned this recently about subsea cables and their potential vulnerability. 00:02:13:00 - 00:02:27:15UnknownSo we'll kind of go back and full circle there and talk through this story a little bit. But before we get going, be sure to subscribe to Uptime Tech News, which you'll find in the show notes or description of today's podcast, as well as Rosemary's YouTube channel, which will also find the description. 00:02:27:23 - 00:02:41:10UnknownAnd Alan, let's start with you. So we're going to push right here into nuclear. So obviously, nuclear power has a bad rap because we get that, you know, big emotional response from Chernobyl. And there's the disaster that it caused. 00:02:42:02 - 00:02:57:02UnknownBut in reality, it's actually quite safe and it does not contribute to CO2 emissions. So, Alan, take us through this this Bill Gates situation. He's backing this experimental nuclear nuclear power plan...

This week the gang discusses international news from the U.S., France, Turkey, Scotland, Vietnam and more. Is New York killing gas plants a good move, or short-sighted? Scotland is lending a hand to Vietnam, helping them stand up their wind industry - will we see more of this? And, how do floating Lidar studies work in helping to identify good wind farm sites? Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Show Transcript This episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPs upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning 00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. 00:01:00:02 - 00:01:21:21UnknownAll right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's episode big global sort of news cycle we're in talk about GE overtaking vessels here in the U.S.. An interesting, cracked foundation issue over in Canada that we'll talk about might have some really expensive repairs due for that wind farm. 00:01:22:12 - 00:01:39:06UnknownWe'll talk about New York state and their contentious relationship now with gas power plants. We'll talk about Scotland lending some aid to Vietnam, France and their next presidential contender and how hostile she is towards wind energy. We'll talk about some funding coming out of the U.K. government. 00:01:39:21 - 00:01:53:09UnknownTurkey's wind power record and last it was a little bit about floating light hours and how they assess wind farm sites. So before we get going on our mind you, no one definitely subscribe to Rosemary YouTube channels you'll find in the show notes of this podcast. 00:01:53:19 - 00:02:09:12UnknownShe's doing live streams and, you know, continues to pump out great content, so definitely subscribe. And check out some of her offerings. Also, you'll find uptime tech news in the show notes wherever you listen or watch. And that's our weekly email update, just letting you know about the new podcast and some other great news around the web 00:02:09:21 - 00:02:29:04Unknown. So sign up for that today and get that update every week, every Thursday morning, so we're going to jump right into it. So first thing is now has arrested that top spot over investors, accounting for 34% of new installations in the first nine months of 2021 versus 30% for Vestas. 00:02:29:04 - 00:02:49:09UnknownAnd of course, that is 2.44 gigawatts of turbines for GE versus 2.2 gigawatts for Vestas. And then, interestingly enough, and Nordics really seems to fly under the radar. But Nordics was third and of course, a German manufacturer with a 20% share of this market, with Siemens Gamesa coming up behind and 16%. 00:02:50:07 - 00:03:10:02UnknownBut you know, everyone talks about GE versus Siemens Gamesa, but Nordics has had some pretty strong year. So I'll start with you. Does it surprise you? I mean, this is, you know, GE is home turf, after all. Yeah, it's a little surprising because he has recently struggle, but they lately have been putting things together and have been

This week, Glen Ryan, Co-Founder of Sunovate, an innovative solar startup with technology to convert solar energy from photovoltaic panels into not only electricity, but heating and air conditioning for commercial buildings and homes. Glen, also the inventor of Bombora Wave Energy shares his entrepreneurial journey and where Sunovate is headed. We also discuss a recent mishap aboard the jack-up vessel the MPI Adventure, in which a full rotor was dropped into the sea. No one was injured, thankfully, but what happened? Plus, Siemens Gamesa's new Virginia, United States factory, Google 24/7 and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - Episode 85 with Glen Ryan of Sunovate 00:00:00:13 - 00:00:21:08UnknownThis episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning 00:00:21:08 - 00:00:48:22Unknownprotection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. 00:00:59:21 - 00:01:19:03UnknownWelcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast, I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. Number one, we've got a great friend of up time, Glen Ryan, who's the co-founder of Sunovate is going to be joining us to talk about his new startup, which is a fascinating new idea and use for PV, you know, solar panels 00:01:19:03 - 00:01:37:02Unknown, which not just turning solar energy into electricity, but also to potentially heat commercial and home spaces, among other things. So really interesting things all over his conversation in about 20 minutes. first, we're going to talk today about Tesla, some interesting new battery technology that they're waiting for Chinese patents to run out and then they're going to be 00:01:37:02 - 00:01:56:10Unknown. It looks like going after that technology hard to bring to their their cars, and we'll see what Alan and Rosemary think about the trickle down effect of that technology here in the U.S. and other places. We'll talk about a really crazy video of a and you've probably seen it if you're president of the wind industry of a 00:01:56:10 - 00:02:17:15Unknownhub with blades attached falling into the ocean off of the jack of the MPI adventure, a jack of vessel. So talk about the implications there. And then after our interview with Glen Ryan, we'll talk about the Virginia's new offshore wind facility that Siemens Gamesa is building here in the U.S. and some of the implications there. 00:02:17:15 - 00:02:33:00UnknownAnd then lastly, we'll chat about Google's 24-7 initiative, which Rosemary is quite excited about, as this puts us further on the path towards a carbon free future. So before we get going, is one remind you. Sign up for Ultime Tech news, so our weekly newsletter? 00:02:33:00 - 00:02:44:07UnknownGet updates on this podcast and other news around the web. You can sign up for that in the show notes or description below, and definitely sign up for Rose Mary's YouTube channel, which you also find in the description below. 00:02:44:14 - 00:03:01:12UnknownShe's pumping out great new content each week, so definitely follow up.

Morten Handberg from Wind Power Lab joined us to discuss wind turbine blade fatigue cracks and how operators can diagnose and creative preventative maintenance plans. We also explore subsea cable technology, including a 450 mile cable that now ranks as the world's longest - are these cables at risk? Can they be protected from natural damage and even sabotage? Plus, a tidal power consortium hits the news cycle, Vestas talks about turbine size and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Show Transcript - Morten Handberg from Wind Power Lab This episode is brought to you by weather guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPs upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And I'm Rosemary Barnes. And this is the Up Time podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime one energy podcast, I'm your co-host, Dan Blewett on today's episode number one, we've got a great friend of uptime coming on the show. Morten Handberg who is the chief blade specialist from Wind Power Lab. He'll be joining us to talk about fatigue issues in wind turbine blades. So really deep dove on that we haven't talked much about much about that on the podcast yet. So we're excited to talk about cracks and fatigue and loading and all this good stuff with blades. So look for that in about 20 minutes. first, we're gonna talk about GE teaming up with GM on rare earth magnets. Obviously, those are needed for motors, nozzles, etc. So big two big companies teaming up to do some of that mining and some of the legwork. We'll talk about the largest subsea cable, which is now operating 450 miles long, crazy, long. We'll talk about Vestas. They're installing their v 230 6:15 megawatt at the Australia Test test facility in Denmark, and also some more news from Vestas, one of their executives talking about, you know, this race with wind turbines getting bigger and bigger and some of the costs and potential difficulties about that in the future. And lastly, we'll chat a little bit about a consortium led by Orbital Marine, which is the maker of the orbital O2, a two megawatt tidal power machine which we had covered about six months ago. So we'll talk a little bit about tidal power towards the end. So before we get going, make sure you subscribe in the show notes of today's podcast to uptime tech news and to Rosemary Barnes's YouTube channel, you'll find both in the links and description below. Remember, you just get an update from us. If you sign up for old time tech news along with other news from around the web. So first off, let's talk about GE and GM. They are obviously two big American companies, and they are trying to figure out how they can make sure this supply chain of heavy and light rare Earth magnets and materials will be available to them for years to come. You know, doing this forecasting is important work. Allan, what sticks out to you? Why do you feel like these two besides the the short g g, maybe like a g r, they could get like a g g t to their a little. With their little club. Besides the the names. What sticks out to you?

In this episode, we discuss the installation of offshore wind turbines at Hornsea 2, which are being embedded in the seafloor via suction caisson jackets. But, how do they work? We also discuss Australia's future in renewables, the Sami people's legal battle over a wind farm that disrupts reindeer herding. Plus, can Puerto Rico's electricity grid be rebuilt with renewables, or only with fossil fuel sources, as is currently proposed? Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: Uptime 83 - Off-Shore Wind Turbine Suction Caisson Installations - How do They Work? This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a striketape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett I'm Allen Hall, and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. on today's show. We've got a bunch of Australian news we'll start off with. So Rosemary is going to have some a strong presence in this episode, as if she didn't already. We'll talk about some of Australian entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes, and he's the founder of Atlassian, which is an amazing suite of software products. Some of his ideas for Australia's renewable future. We'll talk a little about battery manufacturer Red Earth and some of the things they're doing. Kind of like Tesla's Powerwall. They have a bunch different storage solutions over in Australia. We'll talk about some of the seas and wind in Australia. And then moving on, we'll chat a little bit about this reindeer situation with the Sami people in Norway is a really interesting ruling that could get a wind farm dismantled if their lawyers. Right. We'll talk about crabs and their electromagnetic fields. We'll talk about suction, caissons and some of the new offshore wind turbine foundation jackets that have just been installed. An update on the horn seeta wind farm, a 107 meter, a wind turbine blade mold. And lastly, will shed a little bit about Puerto Rico and their electric grid to rebuild. Before we get going on our mind, you subscribe to Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter. It's growing fast and you can get a weekly update from us with new wind energy news all from around the Web, as well as alerts for about the new podcasts and videos. And definitely subscribe to Rosemary Barnes's YouTube channel, which you'll also find in the description of this podcast. So, Rosemary, come up on stage. Let's talk about Australia here. So might Mike Cannon-Brookes again. He's a co-founder, co CEO of Atlassian. They make Trello Jera, which is their project development software. They had tons of teams work with that, getting projects from start to finish and a lot of other stuff. He's a big entrepreneur in Australia, and he says they should be aiming for 500 percent renewables. Rosmarie, 500 percent seems ambitious. Yeah, but I mean, if you think about it at the moment, the amount of calls with that Australia exports, I don't know what percentage we're at in terms of fossil fuel generation,

Is it possible for wind turbine blade aerodynamics to improve as a blade wears down? Nicholas Gaudern, CTO of Power Curve, joins us to talk about vortex generators, Gurney Flaps and the ins and outs of blade aerodynamic upgrades. We also discuss new migratory bird laws in the U.S. that may impact wind farms, undersea exploration tech, a collapsed Nordex turbine in Germany, and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  TRANSCRIPT EP82 Vortex Generators: How & Why Do They Work to Improve Blade Aerodynamics? This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett I'm Allen Hall, and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a great lineup. Also an amazing guest, Nicholas Gaudern, who is the chief technical officer from Power Curve, is back on with us today. He's going to chat later on in the show about vortex generators and some other belayed aerodynamic upgrades. He's a whiz when it comes to aerodynamics, so we're excited to have him and his expertize back on the show . Before that, we'll talk a little bit about EC1 or some of their Kedron technology, checking on wind farms and the aquatic wildlife beneath. We'll talk about migratory birds, some new legislation or really just the law. Looks like it's changing again here in the U.S. We'll talk about some of the implications there for wind turbines, Rehame birds. And then after our interview, we'll talk Germany. There was Nordic wind turbine collapse recently. Not much on it as far as causes. We'll talk about that sort of as an industry wide issue, like why do we not know some of these things? And some of it seems like it's kept kind of close to the vest. We'll also talk about blackouts potentially in Germany. Their electricity supplies seem tenuous at times, and some interesting advertisements have been sort of driving that point home with their own people. And lastly, we'll talk about a U.S. congressman proposing some funding programs for wind and solar here in the U.S. So first, I'll start with Equador. Allen, you seem pretty keen on this technology they have been putting out there. There are drone running around and collecting a bunch of data. So tell us, Allen, what's some of the stuff that they're looking for here on these offshore wind farms? Well, they're looking to see what the sea life is right now before they start investing and in a lot of offshore wind and to try to get a baseline for what the sea life is and what the vegetation is and what the migratory patterns are in some cases. So they're basically putting out these looks like little boat drones are about six feet, two meters long, and they have a solar panel onto them and they're self-propelled and they relay data back to shore, but they're just tracking the wildlife in the area. Very similar that we would do on land. When we put wind turbines on land. We track the migratory birds, we track the wildlife.

The DigiProp program is aiming to bring complex composite propeller designs to life easier and faster - is it working? Plus, we talk about the COVID recovery and a recent report that $201 billion was lost due to the virus' impact on airlines. Lastly, Ehang showed off its new VT-30 EVTOL recently - where is Ehang going? And, AirBus and Honda are now off and running - will their designs fit a different niche than Joby, Volocopter and others? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! TRANSCRIPT: Ehang Shows VT-30; Will EVTOLS Ever Have Swappable Batteries? this episode is brought to you by weatherguard lightning tech at weatherguard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection All right welcome back to the struck airspace engineering podcast i'm your co-host Dan blewett on today's show we'll talk a little bit about uh southwest and some other coveted vaccination rules that airlines are starting to enforce their employees and we'll talk a little bit about the recovery still kind of an update for the fall season here about uh covet and where the airlines are going we're going to talk a little bit about digiprop which is a program looking at the use of thermoplastics and braiding and some other interesting techniques for making propellers and we've got a bunch of evtol news we'll chat through today alakai and their sky hydrogen ev2l is looking for investment we'll talk about their design and some of the challenges there honda's also throwing their hat into the ring developing a hybrid electric evtol and we've also got some announcements from ehang on their vt30 some clarity on airbus as they explain explain their design behind the city airbus and lastly uh just some interesting um info about battery swaps and whether this might be something that could come to aviation or maybe it won't work we'll see um alan let's start with southwest so the latest airline to uh mandate their staff all 56 000 employees to get vaccinated by december 8th and of course this comes at the heel of a of a article by al jazeera that says the global airline industry has seen a 200 billion dollars 201 billion dollar uh loss due to cove at 19. so is this just the latest airline just trying to protect themselves as much as they can obviously hiring and the workforce is a very difficult it's a very difficult time to find employees and to keep everyone up and running i mean how do you view is this like the natural progression here that all these airlines are doing this well united did it a little while ago and now southwest is into the same position i think uh i think american and delta are in the same boat at the moment uh i think you have a really hard time with this we're already seeing the same sort of prescriptive uh you either have a vax vaccine or you or you're fired and we don't provide severance which is a nice little twist uh that is not working well in my area right now and new york state has had a big purge in a sense of where they're just firing all the health care workers that refuse vaccinations and that includes all staff it's not just nurses and doctors it's everybody that works around the hospital food service clean uh janitorial people it's a big deal uh and i'm not sure in in the sort of uh environmental today that it this is a good long-term solution for the airlines i know at the short term it raises some pr it makes people a little more comfortable to go fly i think but do i really care if the line mechanic has a vaccination or not or has previously had covet i i don't think i care as a part of the flying public it seems like more o...

Is community ownership of off-shore wind farms going to continue to gain traction, thanks to companies like Ripple Energy? Can you really buy shares in a wind farm, and is it a smart investment? Plus, the Ocotillo wind farm in California has been shut down as a turbine collapses - what's going on down there in the desert? We also discuss the Romotion camera, Spanish Gas Tax, re-powering SGRE platforms and the state of leading edge erosion. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  EP81 - Own a Share of an Off-Shore Wind Farm? Plus, Romotion Camera: Can it Replace Drones? This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall, and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host and blew it on today's show. Big list of topics are discussed. Number one, community ownership of offshore wind farms. Is this possible? So interesting company called Ripple is one of a few different companies on the Web who are starting to try to break up essentially commodities, if that's the right word, into where you can buy shares of them. There's another company is doing this with artwork. So if you want to buy a share of a Picasso, essentially you could do that. And this is kind of the same concept. So we'll talk about. That's interesting idea. We'll also talk about this new Spanish gas tax. There's a lot of issues with natural gas and and the price of it overseas right now and how that's going to affect the wind industry. So it's an interesting story about the ocotillo wind farm. It looks like it was a pretty rushed sort of project, had a lot of controversy, a lot of native people in the area who are opposed to it. And it's been having consistent problems and it's currently shut down. So we'll talk about some of the implications there. We'll chat about leading edge erosion. There's a new article about a small company getting some funding out of Scotland and raising some questions here about, you know, what what is leading edge erosion look like right now is the current state of these fixes and solutions and kind of where we headed. We'll also talk about Siemens, the Mesa's five platform, how they've upgraded that. And lastly, we'll talk with the row motion camera, which is a pretty cool piece of technology to take photos of wind turbine blades while the wind turbine is still operating and rotating at a high speed. So before we get going, I want to remind you to subscribe to uptime tech news, which you'll find in the podcast show notes or description if you're watching here on YouTube. That's just our weekly update email where you'll get an email of the new episode, helpful links, you know, all the other stuff around the Web if you want to stay up with wind energy news. And be sure to subscribe to Rosemary Barnes is awesome engineer with Rosie Channel, which is here on YouTube. And we have a sponsor livestream with her a couple times a month. So check that out.

Employers are struggling to find qualified, motivated workers despite a surplus of them out there, looking for jobs. A recent Harvard study shows that poor job descriptions, coupled with ineffective filtering and AI may be to blame for screening out qualified applicants. GE partners with Voxeljet AG on 3D printing - the binder jetting technique could be a game-changer. Plus, the Ridley undersea drone system being nurtured by ORE Catapult, Vestas factories closing and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP80 - Voxeljet Partners with GE; Is The Hiring Process Broken? And, Will Carbon Capture Work? This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall, and I'm Rosemary Barnes, and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's episode. We've got a full full docket today. We're going to talk about Vestas closing three plants in Europe. Some interesting submersible technology coming out of OarI Catapult. Ridley is hoping to contribute a lot of robotics to submersible and undersea development. So we'll see what's going up there. We'll talk about GE renewable energy, partnering with Voxel Jet, some really interesting sand casting and 3-D printing stuff going on there. We'll talk about Chevron and some other shareholder meetings. Their CEO has been talking kind of about their future and it looks like to be in in contrast with what Shell is doing. So we know a lot of the oil companies are moving into renewables and Chevron has a good view of renewables, which doesn't sound like they'll be investing in them. We'll talk about electric electricity prices climbing rapidly in Europe. The world's biggest carbon capture machine now flipped on to Rosemarie's. Got big things to say about that. We'll also talk about at the end some big recruiting and job stuff. A really big topic about interviews, the job description process, algorithms filtering, and whether or not employees and wind and other sectors are suffering, because some of it is maybe the digital hiccups that are going on in hiring right now. So before we get going, I want to remind you, sign up for uptime tech news. You'll find that in the show notes of this podcast today, whether you're on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, YouTube, wherever. And definitely check out Rosemarie's Engineering with Rosie YouTube channel, which you'll also find in this description here today. So, Rosie, let's get started with you. Vestas is closing three plants in Europe. Is this something that people should be really alarmed about? Obviously, some jobs are going to be cut, but what does this look like for investors in their future? Well, yeah, I mean, it's hard to say what the the business looks like, but I think when companies are deciding where to have their factories and keep their factories, it's mostly to do with one where their sales pipeline looks like it's going to be.

The Boeing 737 MAX has an extending wheel system - how does it work? The Northrup Grumman Model 437 autonomous aircraft is impressive, but when will we see it in action? And, the Biden Administration is handing out half a billion dollars to aerospace companies and airlines - is it just a bandaid? Great video on the Boeing 737's Wheels here. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! this episode is brought to you by Weather Guard lightning tech at weatherguard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection Transcript: Northrup Grumman Model 437 & Boeing 737 Max 10 Wheel Engineering Alright welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast i'm your co-host dan blewett on today's episode a lot of policy news coming out of the u.s so the biden administration has put a bunch of awards out there are there's clean air and cleaner fuel there's a big push for improving some of that efficiency and reducing carbon emissions you know getting sustainable airline fuel developed all these sort of things so the byte administration is pushing a lot of money out to the faa and other agencies to end to some large aerospace companies themselves to help to develop some of these technologies so we'll talk through a bunch of the implications there uh in our engineering segment we're going to talk about northrop grumman's new uh model of an autonomous aircraft that's got some serious speed um possibly used for future drone missions uh the boeing 737 max's extending wheels which are really unique and interesting and we'll talk a little bit about a 2 megawatt electric motor from right so let's start allen with the faa so biden has you know the administration has earmarked some money to the faa and as part of their clean program they're doling a lot of this out to general electric aviation honeywell pratt whitney boeing roar delta techops gk and aerospace mds coding and america's phoenix they're all working on different projects to meet some of these standards for co2 emissions you know hoping to reduce that to by about 20 percent uh nox uh emissions by 70 and noise as well also particular particulate matter so give me some of your perspective on this obviously you know reducing emissions is difficult um and you've talked a bunch at length in the past about how maybe the airlines should be not quite in the same boat as you know transport other other forms of transportation yeah so the by the administration essentially handing out checks to some larger aerospace companies is kind of unique uh and they can do it under the veil of a lot of different uh projects at the moment and the obvious one for them is uh clean air right so they i think this is sort of indicative of a larger problem that's going on that the airline industry in general has been has been in a financial hurt and they've been asking congress for some relief for at least a year maybe a little bit longer now and they're starting to get in the in different forms uh so there's been several hundred million dollars over a half a billion dollars doled out so far and i think more is yet to come now you know you kind of wonder if ge and honeywell weren't already on some of these tasks uh particularly ge you know gets been pushing cleaner skies for a long time and and they've been doing a lot of work internally forever so this is not unusual for them but i think it's just a a a unique way of trying to get funding to these companies and i i think the bigger scope is at what point will the abide administration start to realize that they need to get the airline industry going and pumping ...

The Gulfstream G700 broke a transatlantic speed record, reaching Mach 0.88 - can they break the sound barrier in the near future? The FAA is investigating Virgin Galactic, asking why they departed from their flight path; they'll be grounded until the answer is satisfactory. And, Archer Aviation just received their G-1 certification, but the ISS nonetheless has issued a warning to investors to decline the intended SPAC merger deal. Will it go through? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! EP69 Transcript this episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast i'm your co-host dan blewett on today's episode we're gonna talk about golf stream setting a new transatlantic speed record at 0.88 mach from savannah to katar uh we'll talk about faa and virgin galactic some of their woes ryanair also with boeing and talks to get some 737 max 10s out the door but it looks like those talks might have collapsed in our evt well segments say we've got a bunch about archer the faa has approved a g1 uh certification for them and the iss on the other hand is advising against the arger spac merger so we'll talk about that some big stock news there and lastly uh interesting uh article from the vertical flight society uh explaining that they've taken a directory of what now includes 500 evtol concepts a which is up from 200 from last summer so we'll talk about some of that and what we can expect if maybe all 500 designs will come to fruition um i'm sure Allen has a lot of thoughts on that so first let's talk about golf stream so Allen this is a g700 that reached 675 miles per hour or mach 0.88 on the flight across the atlantic from savannah georgia here in the u.s to qatar and then they also hopped over to paris uh reaching mach 0.90 which is 690 and a half miles per hour so this is pretty fast but i mean how fast is this it's pretty good for a business jet yeah for especially as large as it is i think the cessna citation 10 which was the fastest at the time was like 0.9192 maybe on mach yeah so it it's it's really moving aerodynamically the gulfstream's earthcraft have gotten better and better as it gotten bigger and bigger obviously it takes bigger engines yeah yeah i mean i mean if you're going to have a top-end business aircraft gulfstream is definitely leading the pack at the moment it's beautiful airplane so obviously supersonic flight is a big one um is that just breaking mach 1 like or is it are we really looking like mach 1.5 like companies like the now defunct arion and now boom who are looking in the supersonic jet realm i mean is this not is this not close enough or i mean what's the big difference here well it just takes a lot more fuel to go faster uh and a different kind of aircraft to break this sonic sound barrier gulfstream has pushed the envelope pretty well in terms of subsonic flight the aircraft is very clean and as they as they develop and continue to develop they have better computational models better aerodynamic cfd models for the aircraft so the aircraft keeps getting cleaner and cleaner if you look at a g3 to the g700 it's it's almost a different aircraft in terms of its aerodynamics and its performance i always think it's really interesting when they do these sort of like speech trials or world records on speed because they used to happen the united states quite a bit they would go from the airplanes would go from like new york to los angeles or new york to miami places where the busines...

A train collided with a wind turbine blade while in transport on a flat-bed truck. It was a scary situation, and fortunately no one was hurt. But why did it happen? Sea Floor mapping drone technology is improving - what will this mean for offshore wind? We also discuss the Jones Act being invoked in wind installations off the U.S. coast, and whether or not thermoset composites can actually be re-used. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - EP77 This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And I'm Rosemary Barnes And this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Side podcast. I'm your co-host and blew it on today's show. We are going to talk a little bit about the construction process and some of the things that can go wrong, unfortunately. You know, we've got a recent story of a train colliding with a truck carrying a wind turbine blade. So this is obviously bring a big spotlight to, you know, just some of the difficult logistics and the overall sort of construction environment where there's so many pieces involved, so much going on. We'll talk a little bit about that today. We're talking a little more about wind turbine blade recycling. Vestas has an initiative, as does Siemens, Gamesa for the Future. We'll talk about the Jones Act as it's dealing with offshore wind, some sea floor mapping drones and a little bit about this offshore open hydro tidal turbine that's now being removed from the ocean. And before we get going, I just wanna remind you that in the description on this podcast, you'll find uptime tech news, which is our weekly newsletter update for our podcast and other great news are on the website if you want to stay updated with everything. Definitely jump into the links, whether you're on YouTube or Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, and sign up for uptime tech news. Like I said, we want to keep you updated that way. You have a great newsletter from us every Thursday morning, depending on where you are in the world, just to keep you up to date. And you'll also find Rosemary Barnes's YouTube channel, where she is continuing to put out great renewable energy content. So Rosemary and Allan are here with us. So let's start with this train, Rosemary. How did you feel seeing this train collide with this poor wind turbine blade driver? Yeah, I felt really sick. And in the the first view of it that I watched, the the guy who stuck taking the film is just going, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. And that is like exactly mirrored what I was saying in my head. So I can't imagine what he was. But the truck driver was thinking, as you know, he's trying to get out of there and then the train comes. And then Allan was kind enough to send me a second angle of it from behind. So I really got the full, full 3D effect. And it's just absolutely shocking, isn't it? But I was so I was so happy to say that no one was injured somehow. No one was injured in that accident except for the know wind turbine blade.

MingYang just released info on its new model, the 16MW MySE 16.0-242, sweeping a 242m area, with 118m blades. It's huge and another surge forward in turbine size. We also discuss gearbox failures and wear issues, as well as solutions that may help, including offerings from Poseidon Systems that monitor wear debris. Plus, how green is blue hydrogen? Why is grey hydrogen, well, grey? Rosemary shares insights on hydrogen, including an explanation of Liebrich's ladder. Cover Photo is a copyright of MingYang Smart Energy Group Co., LTD used under fair use. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - MingYang's 16MW Turbine; Gearbox Failures & Monitoring; Plus, What's a Hydrogen Ladder? This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan BlueT. I'm Allen Hall. And I'm Rosemary Barnes And this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett on today's show. First, we can shout a little bit about some big news from MingYang They've released a 16 megawatt offshore turbine that they're going to hope is going to be in service in a couple of years. So we'll talk about some of the I mean, the thing is gigantic and obviously now displaces the Halifax and the Siemens Gamesa. Their top turbines as far as size. We'll talk at length about gearboxes today, some about gearbox failures. Also an interesting where debris monitoring system from Poseidon. We'll talk a little bit about what we can do to make those gearbox maintenance periods, you know, extend a little bit longer. And then in our third segment today, we're gonna talk about hydrogen. Rosemarie's got a ton of stuff she wants to share and we're going to chat through how green is blue hydrogen. We'll talk through lyrics, hydrogen ladder and some interesting hot brick technology that could be used to store energy, not really hydrogen related, but also just energy storage related. Before we get going. Be sure to subscribe in the show notes below to uptime tech news. That's our weekly newsletter and podcast update. So if you want to stay abreast of everything, wind energy definitely sign up for that. You'll find the show notes and YouTube, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen. And obviously, our co-host Rosemary has a great YouTube channel, so you'll find links to that there as well. So let's get going. Rosemary, kick this to you. So MingYang has a 16 megawatt offshore turbine. The MYSE 16.0-242. So they're going to it will sweep a 242 meter area. That's the rotor diameter, 118 meter long blades. And that's going to be a forty six thousand square meter swept area. So, Rosemary, what are some of the challenges as these continue to get bigger and bigger and bigger, as are ever going to be a cap on on turbine size? It's so funny because that's like the question that everyone's been talking about in our favor as far as far as I can tell. I know when I was working at ILM, every if someone had a 10 year or a 25 year working anniversary,

New research and work on thermoplastic blade construction has yielded some excitement in the community, and Allen and Rosemary discuss the commercial viability of these turbine blades. Vestas has invested in S&L Access crane technology, and their Salamander Quick Lift looks like a step in the right direction. The small Block Island wind farm now has four of its five turbines stopped for "routine maintenance"...but is something bigger at play? Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP73 - Will Battery Fires Set Renewables Back? Thermoplastic Blade Tech + Vestas Invests in Cranes This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett I'm Allen Hall. And I'm Rosemary Barnes And this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I am your co-host Dan Blewett - on today's episode. We're going to talk about a recent battery fire from one of the Tesla mega packs burn for about three straight days until it burn itself out in Victoria, Australia. So we'll talk about some of the implications and whether we should be concerned about battery technology as it takes off, whether that's going to be a problem for renewables. We'll also chat a little bit about the Block Island Wind Farm, which has five turbines up in New England. Four of them are currently offline, and they've got some subsea cable issues that might need to be reburied. So we'll talk through some of the problems are having there. We're also going to talk a little bit about the fishing sector sector. Get Rosemarie's take here on some new reporting from The Guardian about, you know, whether the UK is sacrificing their fishing sector for offshore wind and whether this is really a Zero-Sum game or if everyone can get along. We'll talk about some new technology in cranes, the salamander lift system and what that means as Vestas investors invests in that technology. And lastly, kind of our big topic today, we'll talk about thermoplastic blades, some interesting technology about how to ban them using metal foils. And, well, this is going to be a sustainable practice, whether it will work with lightning issues and all that. So we've got two great minds on blades here. So before we get going, I want to remind you, you can sign up for uptime tech news in the show notes of today's podcast, no matter where you're listening on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher. Just click below and you can sign up for our weekly newsletter where we'll send you an update on the podcasts and all of the latest news around the market. So let's get going. Alan, I know you want to talk batteries. So this big mega pack fire out in Australia sounds pretty scary. What what was the story here with Tesla on this fire? Well, they don't have any details yet. And Rosemary may have a little more because she's a little closer to it than we are. But it's a big lithium ion pack battery packs out. And they were in construction mode, it sounded like. And they had an accident in a fire.

Rosemary Barnes, wind turbine blade and renewables expert, is back on the show as a permanent host, bring a fresh new perspective to the mix. Form Energy, a startup backed by Jeff Bezos, is betting that their iron-air battery technology can transform the power grid. Can it? Plus, we discuss GE's plans for automated blade finishing, a distressed jackup vessel at sea, and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript - EP72 - Rosemary Barnes Joins to Talk Iron-Air Battery Tech, Automated Blade Finishing & More This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbines or do for maintenance or repairs, install our strike tape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And I'm Rosemary Barnes And this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host, Dan Blewett On today's episode, we've got some exciting news. Number one, Rosemary Barnes will be joining us here today, as are our new co-host. So, Allen, Allen is it, what do we have to do? Tri-hosts now? What happens here? I don't know. I don't know how that works. All right. Three new territory. Yeah, it's going to be great. So we'll hear from her in a second. Today's episode is going to be pretty exciting grants. I was battery tech. We're going to talk about this, really this terrible Chinese offshore installer vessel that has capsized. We'll talk about the implications of that. I mean, so much offshore wind is is getting going now where, you know, there's going to be accidents like this or talk about the implications there. Some projections and some ideas about engineering as we add offshore wind turbines. A really interesting case study of an Oklahoma wind farm that's had a lot of problems with safety and damage. And we'll talk about an SCHUTZE investing in a Wyoming wind farm, which is pretty interesting that more and more of these fossil fuel companies are getting into renewable energy. And lastly, we'll talk about ion air batteries, which is a really exciting development and potentially has major implications for the grid. Before we get going, I want to remind you that we need to get you signed up for uptime tech news. So if you're interested in the podcast, if you've been a long time listener, it's time to sign up in the show notes. You'll find a link. You just get a weekly email from us as, hey, we got a new podcast. Here's what it's about. Here's some other great news from around the Web. So definitely sign up for that today in the show notes wherever you listen. So here are my co-hosts. First, let's introduce Rosemary Barnes. Is your first episode back since you were a guest? Way back when. So, Rosemary, a welcome back to the show. We're excited to have you. Can you give our guests who maybe haven't called your episode or obviously it's been a couple of months, could just kind of give us a quick rundown of your background. And, you know, part of the reason we wanted to have you on the show is your expertize in wind energy and renewable energy. So what do our guests need to know about you and the expertize you bring to the show?

This week, we discuss the proposed 7.9 billion dollars that are needed for port infrastructure improvements to accommodate the surge in offshore wind in Europe, Australia's booming wind power and renewable output, a huge Australian hydrogen and ammonia plant proposal, Mocean Blue X wave energy technology and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Australian Power Output Surgers; Mocean Wave Energy & Port Infrastructure This episode is brought to you by weatherguard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If you're wind turbinesor do for maintenance or repairs, install our striketape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a strike tape installation is the quick,easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factorylightning protection system. Forward thinkingwind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the shownotes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptimepodcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and waysto keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome backto the Uptime Podcast. I'm your co-host, DanBlewett on today's show. First, we'll talk a little bitabout port infrastructure. Over in Europe. It looks like about seven point nine billion dollars is the estimateof some upgrades that might be needed just to handle some of the increased volume of,you know, shipping from offshore wind. We'll talk about spiral welded towertechnology, which could be a major player as far as, you know, construction on sitewithout having to ship these really long towers. We'll talk about the emotion borlooX wave energy prototype, which is now off the Orkney Islandsin testing phase. And the U.S. is actually investing in thatto see if we can get some of this wave power upand running on the West Coast. And lastly, we will talk about Australiabreaking an output, a record with five thousand eighthundred ninety nine megawatts. And some of the while,the plans for this very big energy hub in the southwest side of Australiato potentially create green hydrogen and other fuels for use in heavy industries,power stations, shipping and more. So, Alan, let's start with infrastructure. Obviously, this isthis is was going to be a problem. We've talked about thisjust the need for bigger ships, for installationvehicles, for bigger ports as these things growand there's more demand for it, like this is going to stress everything. So, I mean, I assume youyou just see this as a natural progression for all these countriesjust to to make this work, right? Oh, sure. Can can you. Well, imagine thatif you have an existing port that close in the 60s or 70s,which is probably at least in the United States, waswhat a lot of ports are going to be. All the infrastructureyou have to put in to make them viable, to handle offshore wind,it can be roads, right. Heavy duty roads, a carryheavy things for trucking, all the power requirements, because you maybe putting factories near the ports. So all the on the powerdemand you're going to put there, all the other bits and bobs of buildings. You know, it's just going to be massive amounts of infrastructure,sewer, water lines, the whole thing. I always guess that when they come upwith numbers for infrastructure projects, it's roughly 50 percent ofwhat is actually needed to finish the job. So they probably need twice that thatamount to do it, because it's always so

Companies like BP and Shell are now involved in wind farm projects - this seems like a win for the planet, right? Siemens Gamesa reveals high raw material costs that have caused it to change financial guidance - is this a big deal? Plus, Allen Hall gives his engineering insight into overbuilding structures, and whether digital twin technology can truly help solve the problem of not wasting money on overbuilt structures or machines. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: Siemens Gamesa Financial Guidance, Plus: Oil Companies Building Wind Farms & Overbuilt Platforms This episode is brought to you by weather guard lightning tech at Weather Guard. We make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade. At the same time, a StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's show. We'll chat a little bit about some new financial guidance from Siemens Gamesa, a plans for a Scottish offshore wind farm, some really interesting remote controlled rescue boats that could probably play a pretty important role in personnel rescue out on these offshore wind farms. And we'll also talk a little bit about digital twin technology and some new some new studies that have shown that perhaps they can help reduce the amount of steel and other materials needed in these offshore platforms, which is an interesting problem to solve because they're trying to make sure they not only overbuild so they survive, but not under build or waste money as well. So we'll chat about all that today in today's episode. Before we get started, I want to remind you, you can sign up for uptime tech news in the show notes below, whether on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever. And that's just our weekly email update where you can get a notification that we're hey, we got a new podcast out. You know, jump right to it. Also, some insider tech news from around the Web and some other information that you'll find very valuable if you're trying to stay up on the wind energy market. So Allen, my co-host, is here. Let's talk about Siemens Gamesa. So it sounds like along with everything else getting more expensive, steel is really becoming pricey. And so Siemens Gamesa has downgraded some of their guidance on what to expect from them financially for almost a year. Alan, does that surprise you? I mean, everything is more expensive now in twenty twenty one. It doesn't surprise me, but I didn't realize how much of an impact it's going to have on the wind energy business. Maybe because of steel and some of those more massive commodities, fiberglass, carbon, fiber, all those prices are bumping up. And motors, generators, all the copper and anything that involves a, you know, a metal is going to be expensive. Steel obviously being one of those. So the the the problem is, is that you set a contract rate and which operator is going to buy wind turbines for in the hope that you've guessed. Right. On sort of inflation. And some some contracts have some variability in regards to inflation,

Maine announced an indefinite ban on offshore wind in state waters. California, on the other hand, is a step closer to passing laws establishing wind energy goals, setting the stage for a long relationship with wind energy. Why is there such a big difference between states? Can we expect more of this in the future? Plus, the PowerPod by Halcium 1kW wind turbine, off-shore engineering and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP69 - Why are Some US States Different in Offshore Wind Regulations? Plus, PowerPod Wind Turbine 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. 0:38I'm Allen Hall. 0:39I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. In today's episode, we're gonna talk about a lightning storm igniting some natural gas from a leak offshore near Mexico, New Jersey versus Maine some of the different legislation that's going on over there as far as use of offshore assets, you know, federal versus state waters, mains put in a big ban on using offshore wind in state waters. So we'll chat through that turbine validation at the galfer wind farm, offshore and then beyond wind to hydrogen project that's getting a little bit of steam, we'll talk about this unique powerpod wind turbine, which is a one kilowatt prototype for residential use. And also we'll talk a little bit about offshore wind, some of the engineering challenges and how ocean cleanup might have a relatable story to some of this unproven technology. Before we get going, let me remind you, you can easily sign up for uptime tech news, which is just our weekly newsletter in the description, or show notes of this podcast. And that's just getting a weekly update from us as hey, here's our latest podcast, check it out. Here's some other news from around the web. So if you're interested in staying up to date, definitely check out uptime tech news in the show notes below. So Alan, how you doing? Sir, let's talk about lightning, your favorite thing. This lightning storm out in the waters near Mexico looks like it ignited some natural gas leak from a pipe, you know, well below the surface. 2:31So there's a big gas explosion in the Gulf of Mexico next to an oil rig. And one of the byproducts of oil drilling is you get natural gas spots, right? So they had a lightning storm come through it ignite that gas. And it looks like this a big apocalyptic lit the fire in the middle of the ocean like Wow, those water Wow, those fire those two don't go together, there must be something wrong with the earth or wrong with humans involvement with the earth that caused this big thing to happen. No, none of that was true in the Twitter, bouncing around from environmentalists groups, so to speak. And business groups on the other side are pro drilling groups on the other side, which is ridiculous on both ends a little bit. The fire was put out within a couple of hours. And they had a handle on how to go do that. It sounds like because it got it out.

Eviation prepares for test flights, and the Leonardo AW609 is back in the news--will it finally achieve certification and commercial success? Plus if a plane emergency lands in water or has its parachute deploy (in the case of Cirrus aircraft's CAPS system) is the plane capable of returning to service? And, we discuss United making a big jet order and big push toward the top of commercial aviation. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! [TRANSCRIPT] EP61 - United's Big Move; Flying a Waterlogged Plane? Plus, Eviation & Leonardo Tilt Rotor Aircraft 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. 0:14You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on strike, we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. 0:30Alright, welcome back to the struck podcast. This is Episode 61. On today's show, we're going to chat about United Airlines making a pretty big push. 0:39Obviously, they've been a big player in commercial aviation for a long time. But maybe they're really doubling down with a big order from Boeing and some other endeavors. We're talking about a pretty interesting space balloon that challenges what this sort of edge of the earth travel could look like. We'll talk about planes whether they're flyable, again after a water landing, or even the cap system deploying on a Cirrus aircraft, if there's any chance that are ever a chance that they could be flyable. Again, lastly, on our EBT wall segment, we'll talk about aviation Volocopter. And this tilt rotor from Leonardo, the AWS 609, which is not an EBT. Well, exactly, but really interesting and might be coming to fruition soon with certification. So, Alan, how are you sir? What's the deal with United? Are they trying to be the I feel like they've always been a tertiary commercial airliner, but it seems like they're, they're they're done with that image? I mean, is that how you sort of 1:38look at them? Well, I think at the moment, there may be taking the advantage of the market conditions where airline May, while the airlines got infused with some government cash in the United States, even though the travel industry is still down the opportunity to buy your planes at a lower price, if you're thinking about inflationary pressure, and not, particularly in United States and Europe, it may be a good time to buy an airplane and because Boeing is looking for some cash right now, and Airbus also, you may be they may have negotiated a really good deal for themselves, because you never see the published sale prices that is University published prices and sales, right? So yeah, you always see what the list price is. And they always have a disclaimer, any article you read, well, they probably paid a lot less than what the market says the value of the aircraft is, which is fascinating. Every airplane sells at a different price. It's it's kind of like cars, but worse. I think, really, that's that sounds really surprising. You wouldn't think that as a consumer, you'd think that this was very, because of just how how many costs are involved and just how much I mean God to build an airplane, it's such a such a process and so much engineering, you think it'd be much more fixed and original, then then some Yahoo slinging cars on a used use lot, you know? Yeah, well, you got to remember that they have part sales and support sales on the backside. So that they may have signed long term contracts in terms of parts and engineering support going forward. So there may be some cash and that side of it, obviously, to clear up airplanes off your books right now is a good idea. And to get that,

Are environmental and economic concerns posed by fisherman and advocacy groups valid, given commercial fishing's impact on marine life? We discuss the repowering of a 240MW wind farm in the midwest, along with general implications for old wind turbines, and discuss carbon fiber vs glass fiber in the future of blade construction. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  EP68 Transcript - Fisherman, Repowering Old Wind Farms, Plus Carbon Fiber vs Glass Blade Debate 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. 0:38I'm Allen Hall. 0:39I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co host Dan Blewett. On today's episode, we're gonna talk about the levelized cost of energy. So renewable, renewable sources, including solar and wind are now the lowest to electricity forms, which is pretty cool news. We'll talk a little bit about fishermen and some of their worries some of their woes as far as offshore wind coming to the US. Siemens Gamesa has their 11 megawatt offshore turbine now certified as typhoon resistant. We'll talk a little bit about glass first carbon fiber repowering for old wind farms, and some of the challenges and just interesting tech involved there. So before we get going wanna remind you that in the description of this podcast, whether you're on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, number one, leave us a review, we'd really appreciate it. But number two, you'll find uptime tech news, which is our new weekly newsletter, you can easily subscribe to that and just get a notification from us every Thursday morning, when the podcast drops. So it's right on your inbox, you can click through or listen to the new episode, as well as get some other interesting tech news from around the web, as well as clips from the past. Pat from past episodes, so be sure to sign up for uptime tech news in the description of this podcast. So Alan, how are you sir, let's start with the levelized cost of energy. renewable sources are now cheaper than ever, and solar is in the number one spot with a $37 cost. And onshore wind is now second with $40 per megawatt hour. So this has been a pretty big change a long time coming, the this cost decrease. And now well below gas and other other other forms 2:40it has in the latest data is interesting to look at. on the solar side, I think there's just an emphasis by China to flood the market with cheap solar panels. And that seems to be the driver because Europe in the United States and other parts of the world are not really producing solar cells. So they seem to be mostly coming down to China, on the wind turbine side that the cost of energy is going down as the turbines get bigger. Think of it that way. There's just producing more power for you know, it's still expensive to install, but you're generating so much power out of a certain part of land, which just makes it more efficient. And obviously, the winter market has made a lot of improvements in the last several years, which is fantastic.

A wind turbine technician fell down the inside of a wind turbine blade, prompting a successful rescue effort despite a scary situation. Will we see more of this with an increase in blade interior diameters? Plus we talk about misinformation and GE's recent press about testing blade tip aerodynamic add-ons. Watch this episode on YouTube here. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: Wind Tech Falls Inside Blade; GE Test Blade Tip Add-ons; Plus New Tallest Turbine? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 67. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's episode, we're going to talk about some disinformation maybe just a good meme. But we'll talk about the continued trend of the internet, sometimes ruining everything. We'll also chat about some, you know, a really scary incident with a wind turbine tech recently out of Iowa fell down the inside of a blade rescue effort and was successful, it was mostly unharmed. But still interesting thing with some interesting implications. We'll talk about some work GE is doing their ta project trying to get a little more aerodynamic efficiency out of their offshore blades, and a really interesting cast in place concrete tower concept. So before I kick it to my co host, Allen Hall, just remember we've got uptime tech news is our new newsletter, you can sign up in the description of this podcast below whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, wherever. And that's just our monthly, it's not our monthly that's our weekly update, where we're going to send you the new podcasts, some great news from around the web, new tech, all the stuff that we're keeping you up to date on so if you enjoy the show, you'll definitely enjoy just getting our weekly uptime tech news update. So sign up for that in the show notes of this podcast. So Alan, how you doing sir? Let's first let's talk about some disinformation. So first, on Facebook, this thing just started going around. It's like Haha, look at this wind turbine that melted in the Texas heat. And they showed one of those photos which are crazy photos of. So it sounds like this was a turbine damaged by a storm where basically all three blades were damaged and essentially just wilted. 2:46Did you see So? What were your thoughts on on a this photo in general it's a pretty dramatic photo of this whole winter and just wilted it is. The early indications about the photo were that it was a lightning strike. That's the that was the first thing I saw. And then the heat. 3:03The discussion about where it got so hot in Texas that the places melted. Yeah, just just wilted like, right. That was Haha, funny. And then the latest was maybe as wind speeds. But I have none of the other wind turbines in that area had that same fault. So make sure you don't feel like lightning strike broke one of the blades and then it cascaded into vibration, which broke other ones and everything still looks like ...

How well are wind farms protected from cyber attacks? Will ransomware and other attacks potential strike more and more wind energy companies, following the attempted extortion of Invenergy? And, we discuss transmission lines - the electrical engineering needed, AC vs DC power, interstate line projects, Texas and ERCOT's problems, and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Wind Farms At Cybersecurity Risk? Plus, a Deep Dive into Transmission Lines 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. 0:38I'm Allen Hall. 0:39I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 66. And in today's episode, we're gonna talk a lot about transmission lines. Obviously, our co host, Allen Hall is an electrical expert, electrical engineer, lightning protection, all that stuff. So be prepared to get real nerdy with us today on electricity. And we're also going to talk a little bit about something that's going to be a big growing concern. It's becoming a growing concern in all industries, which is hacking ransomware struck invenergy does a big developer of wind sites and other renewable energy, they are subject to attack recently. So we'll chat a little bit about that. And then obviously, as we get more and more wind farms online, a growing problem is going to be how do we transmit that power to the grid? And where does it need to go? And do we have enough capacity in the transmission lines to get it there. So that's going to be a big topic for today. But before we get going, I want to remind you again, in the show notes of today's episode, whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, you'll find a link to subscribe to uptime tech news, which is just our new weekly email sent every Thursday morning, that's going to let you know, hey, we got a new podcast. Here's what it's about. Here's our guest. Here's our topic. Here's a clip from another show. Here's some other great wind energy news, always on the tech side of things just right in your inbox. So if you're already a regular guest on the show, or a listener of the show, thank you. And we think you'll really like our to the point concise, not time waster very upfront email. So sign up for that in the show notes. So Alan, let's start today with invenergy. They were hacked, they discovered the the breach. And this wasn't a typical ransomware where they encrypted all their data, really, it seemed like it was just an extortion attempt on their billionaire founder. And of course, the guy was kind of just like, Hey, here's the middle finger, we're not paying you. And you're not going to extort me. But this is a scary thing. And I'm sure, you know, as our previous guest, Byron Martin from Teknologize, who's a cybersecurity expert and an IT expert, as they mentioned in our podcast, so definitely check out that episode with Byron Martin and Dan Morgan, if you haven't, this is going to become a bigger bigger thing like the colonial pipeline was hit. You know, government agencies are getting hit.

Will Jetoptera's fluidic propulsion system work, and reach new applications of aircraft? SpaceX wants their satellite wifi on planes--can they make the technology work with existing radomes? And, can a 3-winged jumbo jet really deliver on fuel efficiency and lift projections? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP59 - Jetoptera, 3-Wing Jumbo Jets, SpaceX WiFi & More 0:27Alright, welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a lot of prototypes to talk through. So my co host, Allen Hall here is gonna kind of pick apart a bunch of these different designs, talk about some of the good things and the bad things. And but we'll start with some news, Airbus, talking about hydrogen starlink, internet, potentially providing fast Wi Fi to planes or something pretty interesting that I hadn't thought about. And then we'll get into some different concepts of trialing jumbo jet, and electric sea plane. And a really interesting what's called a fluidic propulsion system on a flying car concept, as well as one that has the wings, detach and fly home. So again, this would be kind of fun. But let's start with news. Allen. So Airbus has said that the, you know, hydrogen is probably not going to be widely used in planes before 2050. So 30 years off, Does that sound right to you? Well, they're talking about larger aircraft, like in a 328 350 kind of aircraft not being able to switch over to hydrogen, I think that's right. The shorter kilometer type aircraft, maybe propeller driven aircraft will be an easier conversion. And it makes a lot of sense, because there's a lot of short routes in Europe and also in the United States, that could handle a hydrogen aircraft, but it's gonna have to be specifically designed. And that's why Airbus is pushing the back a little bit. I think, early on, there was an impression like we're going to make an Airbus A 350. with hydrogen. That's not where Airbus it. I don't think that's where their intent was. I think eventually, yes. I mean, that's that they did put up some PR about that, right. I mean, we saw the promotional things. 2:10But that that didn't have a timeline, if they're talking about hydrogen aircraft. Yeah, I think they can totally 2:18like an ATR 72, or the dash eight q 400 turboprop aircraft, aircraft would be relatively modifiable into a hydrogen configuration. But after that, when you talk about changing a turbo fan engine to hydrogen, and all the infrastructure involved in aircraft to for the fuel system, that's just going to take a long time, because there's so many, so many pieces to it. Hydrogen is a very small molecule, it leaks everywhere. 2:49Whereas liquid fuel doesn't do the same thing. So all that is all the design elements change, and pressures, and temperatures are all different. Just starting over. It's what's what's what Airbus is saying is like, Look, guys want to start over? 3:05We can't do that overnight. We can't even do it in 10 years. Yeah, so it's definitely they're gonna more all these current planes that use turbo fans to just run their course, essentially. And then, like I said, just start from scratch, like a different designer. I mean, do you see it being like a really wacky, very different looking like futuristic looking? Or is it just gonna be an A 320? That's still pretty normal looking that runs on Hydra? Like, is there a reason that it has to be strange looking to be futuristic and use a different system? Because like, all these renderings You see, like, yeah, so Oh, they always seem very science. fictiony. Right, but right, because it has to be that way, or it might look the same. And 2050, I think the aircraft, essentially, it's gonna look the same,

In this episode we discuss plane discounts - are used Airbus A330s a viable plane in today's market? The Hermeus team is trying to get a Mach 5 plane to market within five years, and is working with the Air Force on a Mach 5 Air Force One - is this realistic? Plus, Vertical Aerospace is going public with a SPAC merger, and has taken on a significant number of orders lately - are they surging ahead in the EVTOL race, despite no flight demonstrations to date? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! TRANSCRIPT EP58 - Hermeus Mach 5 a Reality? Vertical Aerospace Orders Surge and Are Used Planes a Thing? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the stroke podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. 0:18I'm Allen Hall. 0:19And here on struck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. Alright, welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's episode, we're going to talk about used planes, how long do they last? And what's the market like for older Airbus and Boeing aircraft? And is this going to hurt their sales of new aircraft, and our engineering segment we'll talk about Hermeus. They are looking to create a Mach 5 aircraft and they are working in conjunction with the Air Force to develop the next Air Force One Mach addition. So we'll talk about some of the engineering challenges that will come out of them. And then there are a VTOL segment lots on Vertical Aerospace today, which they've been in the news quite a bit. 2 billion worth of orders from Avalon, which entails quite a bit of quite a lot that gets 500 plane orders. American Airlines has also put an order for 250 planes, Virgin Atlantic 150. So there's a lot going on here. And it looks like they're gonna go public with SPAC merger. So lots in the in the news about Vertical Aerospace, and they admittedly have a beautiful looking prototype. I'm into it. But we'll see what Alan has to say. So first, Alan, let's chat about USD plane. So especially popular right now is the Airbus a 330, with smaller airlines who want to save money or startups, and they can be reduced, sometimes up to close to 50% of their sticker price. What are like what's the deal with the a 330? And why is it so it's such an attractive use plane and what what kind of routes can the a 330 fly? 2:07Well, it's a bigger airplane. So it's a twin aisle airplane. So it's it's made for longer haul routes. Similar to what like a triple seven would do. And the but that airplane is much older in terms of when it was developed. The problem with anything as twin owl right now is that there's not a lot of long route flights going on anywhere in the world. Forget about you know, United States, Europe is really hard you still now so there's there's just a depressed market. There's a lot of airplanes, twin, all airplanes that are parked right now. And obviously, the newest ones are going to retain most of their value, but the older ones are gonna have a hard time especially older designs are gonna have a hard time maintaining their value through this just because they're older designs, you can buy a new one for also a discounted or newer one for a discounted price. Why wouldn't I do that? You totally what. And I think a lot of times in these down situations and COVID has been one big downer for the airline industry, airplane models just disappear for the most part or they are they shift where their main focus is they get because they're just less expensive to operate, they can be operated by a lot of airlines that couldn't otherwise afford them. And so you'll you'll see,

GE Announces a partnership with LafargeHolcim to recycle old wind turbine blades into concrete - will it work? Plus, the DARC system vows to protect bats through a smart curtailment system, and we discuss a new 1000ft tall offshore prototype that purports to replace dozens of turbines in one installation. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  TRANSCRIPT - EP65 - Turbine Blades into Concrete? Bat Protection for Towers Plus 1000ft Offshore Turbine? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co host Dan Blewett. On today's show, got four really good topics number one we're gonna talk about GE working with with Lafarge wholesome on winter and blade recycling and mixing some of the, you know shredded up winter and bleeds into cement, which is a really cool idea. We'll talk about a new tool called dark that's going to help protect bats while hopefully keeping energy production up for some of these winter minds with their curtailment curtailment solution. We're gonna talk about this as my favorite thing of the week is the 1000 foot, it looks like a huge box fan. That's potentially going to be a an offshore solution, this new prototype said to be really, really powerful, and can essentially take all this sort of swept area and put it into one sort of condensed package. And then lastly, we'll talk a little bit more about these prototypes, a GE floating prototype, and all that stuff. And when before we get going, I want to remind you that you can subscribe to uptime tech news. So if you're a regular listener of the show listener to the show, number one, thank you. Number two in the show notes whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, you can just check right below there's a link and if you sign up, you'll just get an email from us every Thursday saying hey, we got a new episode. Here's some other great articles who found the web including the stuff that we discussed on the show. So if you want to stay current on what's happening in the wind industry, definitely sign up for uptime tech news again, link is in the show notes below. So Alan, how are you sir? Let's get started with GE in cement. So we had, you know, the founder of CO BOD Henrik lon Nielsen on the show and they had a great partnership with GE and Lafarge wholesome. Lafarge was providing the unique, 2:43you know, concrete cement mixes for their 3d printers, which they're printing, you know, winter and blade, foundations and towers and all that stuff, actually. So I've watched a pretty cool video, they built the first Habitat for Humanity home down Arizona this past week. So a lot of good stuff coming out of the forest wholesome, but they're teaming up with GE to potentially recycle wind turbine blades. And my big question for you here is, 3:06as you know, an expert in composites. What does this mean for the strength of cement? I mean, it seems like this is probably a really good type of aggregate to mix into ce...

Will the Boom Overture supersonic jet take off now that United Airlines has placed a future order? Can Boom succeed where Aerion recently failed? The Boeing MQ-25 drone recently refueled an F-18, a first in aviation. Plus, the Ehang 216 takes flight and Joby announces their new, simple flight controls: are they are a game-changer? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript - EP57 Boom Supersonic, Boeing MQ-25 Refueling Drone Plus Ehang & Joby EVTOL News 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. 0:14You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on strike we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. 0:30Alright, welcome back to the struck podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we're going to talk about a new contract between bombard a Learjet and the US Air Force looks like it's worth about almost half a billion dollars, so exciting for them. We'll talk a little bit about more about supersonic jets. So obviously aireon collapse, we'll talk a little bit more about that. There's been some interesting news stories that have come out. And then we'll also talk about boom, announcing a partnership with United united wants to buy a bunch of planes. So we'll see if that comes to fruition. Obviously, that's going to be quite a long game. In our engineering segment, we'll talk about a Boeing mq 25 drone, refueling and FA t fa 18 in flight. So pretty exciting. First time a drone has refueled manned aircraft. And we'll also talk a little bit about airships, and why one maker is betting that passengers will choose comfort over speed. Lastly, in our E VTOL segment, we'll talk about ehang. And some interesting news about flight controls from Joby. So, let's start with mrda. They've got a $464.8 million contract for bombarding a global 6000 aircraft with their Air Force. what's notable about this aircraft, it's just a thing of it as a midsize business jet, which makes the tube section 1:54decently sized. So you can put some humans in it and put equipment in it. So if you're running a special missions aircraft, where you want to put a couple of control centers, in it, monitoring stations, those kind of things, you can, you can fit that all that infrastructure into the aircraft, you have room to do it, there's places to mount all that hardware. And then typically what those aircraft will have is sensors mounted on the top of the aircraft on the fuselage and on the belly to look left or right, up and down and communicate satellite data back to whoever they want to send it to. So there's a you just need a certain amount of size aircraft to do all that and the global 6000 is sort of is really a nice platform for that and that's they've been doing a lot of work in Wichita Learjet, they're on modding and doing military support aircraft for a long time. I mean, I think I can revert back into the early 2000s. They were doing some back then I worked on a couple of those. And I think the the bonus here is that Wichita as a city has been really getting hammered on terms of not having any really new projects going on. Textron has got a couple of derivative projects going on. But in terms of Lear, Jet Lear jets been shrinking and they shut down all production of Lear jet just recently so everybody is left at Lear jet on the west side of town there needs something to work on. And so it's good they earn you know, 400 $500 million project gets some a couple years out in terms of support, and they have a great flight test. And they've always had a great Flight Test Center in Wichita. So all the Bombardier flight test programs,

Rosemary Barnes from Pardalote Consulting and the popular YouTube Channel, Engineering with Rosie, joined us to share her take on wind energy. Ms. Barnes has a Ph.D in composite materials and structural design, and has worked for LM Wind Power, where she oversaw blade heating systems, among other projects. In this episode, she shared her insights on how wind turbine blade design has evolved, what the future of wind power might look like, vertical vs horizontal wind turbines, and how we can make more efficient energy transitions. Follow up with Rosie on Linkedin, visit Pardalote, her consulting firm, and be sure to subscribe to her YouTube channel. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP64 - Rosemary Barnes of Pardalote Consulting talks Wind Turbine Blade Design & Sharing Her Knowledge on YouTube Dan Blewett 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Allen Hall 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. Dan Blewett 0:39I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. Dan Blewett 0:58All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 64. And we have a great guest today, Rosemary Barnes is joining us on the show. She is a consultant with Pardalote. And she also runs the YouTube channel Engineering with Rosie where she educates the public on all sorts of topics in wind, wind energy, on wind turbine design, on blade aerodynamics, lots of really interesting stuff, tons of new videos on green hydrogen. So we wanted to have Rosie on the show to share her expertise. And let me run down a little bit of her background. So she has her PhD in structural design and composite materials from the University of New South Wales Canberra campus in Australia. She was worked for lm wind power as a engineer, and she just has a lot of experience a lot of different areas in the wind industry and as an engineer. So Alan, what were some of your takeaways from our talk with with Rosie, Allen Hall 1:59just like the way she thinks she thinks in terms of systems, not in terms of components. And I think that's a for an engineer is a good way to think about bigger problems. And if you've watched some of our YouTube videos, she talks about different parts of the what I'll call the renewable energy or green energy economy and how that can function and whether we can do the things that are being promoted by in some cases, politicians, and whether that really can come from reality. And if you start looking as a whole system of components, green hydrogen or tidal power or vertical wind, turbans, there's a lot more to it, then then you would think, and it's a normal person who's not an engineer would think about and she's an engineer and she's been around for quite a while and so she can connect the dots for you and and it's extremely helpful to make it make it more realized. Is it realizable? Or is it not aware that wrote are the real costs in doing this and they may not be just in the component themselves, like a vertical winter, maybe all the other things and like, how, how much does it operate? Is it efficient? Can you can you scale it up all those different aspects and and that's what makes her approach a...

Bye Aerospace lost their battery supplier, as Oxis Energy went into bankruptcy--what does this mean for Bye? We discuss the Alpha Electro, a trainer from Pipstrel, and the use of electric motors in light sport aircraft. Plus, more new EVTOL designs continue to pour out, including a 40-seat design. But are these prototype renderings just a pipe dream? Or will they ever actually fly? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection consulting services. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript EP56 - Pipistrel Alpha Electro; Battery Woes for Bye Aerospace; Is a 40-Passenger EVTOL Just Science Fiction? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. 0:18I'm Allen Hall. 0:19And here on strike we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. Alright, welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, lots to cover a lot of interesting news in the cycle this week. Number one, and we'll chat about Southwest. There's just way too many flight attendants getting getting punched in the face. So we got a we got a chat about it. EVTOL. Startup Archer is seeking to dismiss the trade secrets lawsuit filed by whisk but that doesn't look like it's going anywhere. That seems like it's getting only increasingly messy. We'll talk about mighty fly, which has been cleared to start autonomous cargo drone service. They've gotten some some clearance from the FAA, which will be cool. And then in our engineering Simon was about pipistrel. They've a light sport aircraft, they got an electric motor and about an hour of flight time with an hour charge time. So pretty cool. Some rough news for by aerospace, their battery supplier oxes energy is facing bankruptcy. So we'll talk about the implications there. And then our EVTOL. Segment lots of interesting stuff going on there. We'll talk about some certification issues, which we've talked a bunch about in the past ehang is unveiling a longer range design, and Kel akona has thrown out a 40 passenger concept, which seems straight out of science fiction at this point. And we'll talk a little bit about that as well as some price controls. So start with Southwest isn't really sad Southwest is calling off plans. Well, the plans to sell alcohol in the plains does not make me sad I I'm neutral to it. But there's just been a lot of incidences with unruly passengers. And more recently, Southwest flight attendant was punched in the face loss of teeth. And I mean, things are getting are getting rough. What do you attribute this to? 2:18Alcohol, alcohol, people being upset about masks, reconnecting with the rest of society after being disconnected for a year, all those all those things are playing into it. I recently flew to Las Vegas and I was I kind of like flying to Las Vegas, because it's just it's different places a little more activity. Most airports, the only place I guess there's more places with slot machines. There's a couple places with slot machines in the country. But that has to have the most. And the amount of alcohol there is says hi right You mean that people can leave in the casino gonna go home? For the most part and I think you see it in places where people have been partying in Florida had a rash of it. Some of the islands had a rash of it. I think that's that's just a big problem with alcohol. People being upset about mass people being overly sensitive about stuff and flight attendants worried about their well being which they have every right to it for a two hour flight. You're going to get to a fistfight and punch somebody punch a flight attendant,

What happens when a hurricane rips through one of the off-shore wind farms soon to be built in the U.S.? Can wind farms actually obstruct, absorb and decrease the destruction of a hurricane, as some researcher say? The Carolinas to the Gulf of Mexico encompass a third of U.S. coastline, and so in this episode we discuss wind turbines and hurricanes, the engineering, what we've learned from oil rigs, and what the research says. Plus - we discuss the Orbital Marine O2 tidal turbine, a very cool and powerful tidal power generator just now being deployed in the North Sea. Watch this great video on the O2 here and watch today's podcast on YouTube here. ✅ Sign up for Uptime Tech news and get every new episode in your email inbox, along with more wind energy tech news from around the web. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! ✅ Subscribe now to Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. Can wind turbines withstand hurricanes? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime wind energy podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we're gonna talk a lot about our great oceans. First we're gonna start with not wind energy, but tidal power, the orbital otoo, which is the super cool title power generator, two megawatts just getting deployed now into the Orkney Islands. So we'll chat a little bit about that. And then we're gonna talk about offshore wind and and in respect to hurricane. So this is something that I was thinking about a lot recently did a bunch of research for today's show. Because as wind power continues to, you know, gain traction the US in the offshore market, you know, the US is a pretty favorable environment for typhoons. So, we'll talk today about a lot of the engineering challenges and just the unpredictable nature of installing offshore wind farms in the US, a lot of which might be in the way of Hurricane alley. So Alan, first let's start with the orbital oh two, we were just checking out this YouTube video of the launch of this thing. It's like the size of a 747. It looks super well built looks very cool. I'm pretty impressed by it. What's your take here, it is cool looking. It's enormous in size, it's hard to get a perspective on it until you because it's when you see it in the water, it doesn't have any scale. to balance it off of when you see it mounted to the shipping truck, or whatever you call the moving vehicle what all I know, it must be 100 wheels on this thing. It's it's massive. It's really, it's really massive. It's interesting, but isn't it? I know that there's been a lot of discussion about wave technology and some title stuff over the last 20 years have I ever can recall. But this scoring in a slightly different direction where it's purposely designed vehicle for a particular spot in the world, I think to think the tides there are pretty strong. In the in the just the movement of the water, there's pretty strong. And what do we say it was? How many megawatts? Was it going to be a peak power? Was it?

In this episode we discuss Airbus Corporate Helicopters (ACH) and their 70% marketshare of the yachting helicopter segment--is this sustainable, and recession-proof? Aerion, who was making headlines with their X2 supersonic corporate jet prototype, has shut down operations. What does this mean for the industry, and should other startups be nervous? And, Allen dives into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)--will it catch on and prove viable with new legislation proposing tax incentives for airlines that adopt it? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape lightning diverters and aircraft lightning protection services here. If you're a radome design engineer, we can help. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Episode Transcript: Airbus Corporate Helicopters; Aerion Supersonic Shuts Down; Will Sustainable Aviation Fuel Actually Catch On? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. 0:18I'm Allen Hall. 0:19And here on struck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. Alright, welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a bunch of Boeing related news, some other news. So first, we'll start with Emirates, sending a warning to Boeing that it might refuse their 777 x shipment. That doesn't meet commitments. We'll talk about Airbus and some other helicopter market and our engineering segment today we'll talk a little bit more about the grounding issue the electrical issues that Boeing's had. And how does the complex fastening riveting? Just the order of operations in manufacturing played a role in that. And we'll also talk about sustainable jet fuels and a potential tax credit that's coming out in potential legislation. Lastly, on our EBT well segment, like a little bit about john Air Mobility as they're trying to get a will they have a partnership now with cae to accelerate design of a flight simulator. And we'll talk about the implications for aireon shutting down. Of course, Ariane is not an EBT well, but a supersonic jet company, now defunct, but this will certainly send a ripples throughout a lot of these throughout the industry, as a lot of these other startup companies, which were well funded like aireon, maybe wonder if they're next. So Alan, let's start here with with Emirates. So they warned Boeing that they were refused 777 x jets, if they fall short of contractual performance commitments, is this a big deal, or is this pretty sort of normal par for the course, it's normal if you're inside company to company, but it's unusual to see that get into the press. 2:06So somebody is getting upset, and those using the press as a leverage point. Because the aircraft manufacturer doesn't want to be in the press about that stuff. And they don't want it to spread that maybe their performance numbers are not being met. And on the triple seven, there's been a lot of conjecture about the performance of the power plants, like what kind of thrust we got, what kind of fuel burn we have, because that's critical to the operation of any airline or freighter company, for that matter of how much fuel we're gonna burn with x kind of load in it, and what's the range and all those kind of things. As you can imagine, if you're the analyst at the airline company, and you're trying to put that into your database and figure out what the cost of an airline ticket is, or what kind of profitability this airplane is going to be what routes you can fly it on, you have nothing to base that on, you just have no data without having that that's like the most crucial piece of data of all of it is engine performance. So you can get a lot of back and forth between buyers and producers of ...

Matthew Stead, CEO of Ping Services, joined us to talk about the Ping Monitor, a device that attaches to the bottom of a wind turbine, listening to the sound of the blades as they rotate past. The Ping system compares the baseline sound to each pass of the turbine, and alerts wind farm operators when changes are detected. The Ping Monitor is so advanced, it can even differentiate and predict which types of damage have occurred--or are occurring--with high accuracy. Watch today's episode on YouTube here. Follow Ping on Linkedin here; Connect with Matthew on Linkedin Here; Visit them on the web here. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: Matthew Stead, on how the Ping Monitor Can Change Wind Turbine Blade Monitoring https://youtu.be/QtJ5bk4DLV8 Dan Blewett 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. All right, welcome back to the uptime wind energy podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a great guest, Matthew stead, CEO of ping services is here to talk about their ping monitor system. Allen, really interesting conversation with Matthew today, what were some of your takeaways from it? Allen Hall 1:15Well, ping monitor has a great audio recording system, basically data data analyzer system that just magnetically stick to the side of the wind turbine and takes really important data. So you know, if your wind turbine blades are having problems, it's the thing about this. And talking to Matthew is so fascinated, it seems like it's such an obvious solution. But no one's done it until we got to ping and it's it's a fascinating device. And it really interesting company. And if you own or operate wind turbines or repair wind turbines, this is a good a good one. Because not only do we get to see the technology, Matthew actually shows you all the innards of these of this ping monitor, but also describes how the system works. And that's what you need to know. Dan Blewett 2:02Yeah, it is a really cool system, because you think of you know, like drone technology is becoming ubiquitous, right? Like camera technology in general. All those things seem to be like the go to for assessing damage. And of course, they still are. But you know, so the ping monitor system, if you're unfamiliar, it's, it's a little dome about this, it looks like at about the size of a, like a fire alarm in your home. And a large part of that dome is just the windscreen. So it's preventing any excess noise just like you see on our microphones here, the the the foam pop filter, and so it listens to the wind turbine blades as they come through their cycle. Every time it goes whoosh, whoosh, it's, you know, it's listening to that sound creates a baseline. And then over time, it's comparing that baseline to the new normal. So if you're, you know, when Tim gets struck by lightning, if it has leading edge erosion a couple years later, it's gonna sound different. And as you'll hear in this in right, from the get go in the podcast, you know, they got the idea from that winter oven, technicians could hear the difference themselves. So again, we can tell like this, something's up with this blade. Like it sounds weird. And again, that's something that you hear in like the auto industry.

Will the 4-seat Voloconnect EVTOL change everything for Volocopter, as they moving into longer range flight prototypes? Beta Technologies got a big investment round from Fidelity and Amazon-what does this mean for the company's future? Plus, Allen talks electrical grounding; is Boeing in trouble with their latest 737 electrical problems? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP54 - Voloconnect EVTOL, Beta Technologies Investment, Plus Boeing Grounding Issues 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at Weather Guard. We support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. 0:14You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on struck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. 0:33Alright, welcome back to the struck podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we're gonna catch up a little bit talk about some good growth Coronavirus News with quarantine free flights, from American to Italy. We'll talk a little bit about Airbus and Air France, standing, potentially standing trial over 2009 crash and a potential partnership between Rolls Royce and Boeing. In our engineering segment, we'll talk about grounding today, as it kind of relates to some of the new Boeing 737 issues which that plane remains embattled. And then lastly, bunch of E VTOL. News to catch up with some really interesting stuff from Volocopter. We'll talk battery tech a little bit re lilliam and Beta Technologies. So Alan, how you doing, sir? Hey, great, Dan, we're almost out of COVID in the United States. I know. The mask mandates have been lifted recently and will be lifted at the end of the month. So that's that's a really good sign. I hope our friends, especially our friends in Europe, and in India and South America 1:40can get to this point relatively soon. I know there's just a lot of a lot of Coronavirus going on around the world. And it's really serious in certain parts. So from the aviation community standpoint, it's a big problem. 1:54Travel is still going to be limited for the next several months easily. Yeah, well, and so, so much reporting on American Airlines, they're offering customers flights, quarantine free from JFK to Milan, and and from JFK to Rome. So yeah, basically, customers will have to provide proof of a negative COVID test and then also get a COVID test when they arrive. But after that, they can pretty much go about their merry way, which seems like a you know, big sort of breaking of the seal. Because international travel has been a big No, no, right? It has been it. But it's also really done a lot of damage to the economies that rely on vacation or some business travel. It's just been slammed, totally slammed for more than a year now. And it's it can't go on much longer without really having lasting lasting 2:46consequences. And so it's good that at least where we can do it. We should be starting to open up some of these routes. Obviously, having the COVID test makes infinite sense. Having been vaccinated, I had my second vaccination over the weekend. And that was an experience. But if we can do 3:07it little 16 hours of sickness. 3:09Oh, yeah, it was here. Now. It did. It really did. It really did. I felt like it felt like I was having the flu, every part of my body was achy, and tired. It was amazing how fast that reaction happened. But, hey, I wanted to go through that if I could travel again, or travel more, I've already traveled quite a bit. He already COVID times. But it's it's you know, always like super cautious about wherever you go. And rightly so me in the vaccine is not going to prevent you from catching it necessarily. But it'll just knock the symptoms way down. And hopefully,

In this episode we discuss Vestas' recent press release about a partnership with resin manufacturer Olin, and their excitement over new technology to break down wind turbine blades into, essentially, their original materials. Is this possible? Plus, we chat about the recent approval of the Vineyard Wind Project in the United States and talk about SkySails and KiteMill kite power generation technology - is it a viable power source for the future? This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript EP61 - Vestas Blade Recycling; Vineyard Wind & Kite Powered Turbines? 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPs upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime wind energy podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we're going to talk a little bit about the vineyard wind project just approved here. In the US we're going to chat about drainage hole cleaning and some of the lightning implications for drainage holes and the water that can be potentially kind of reservoir up inside of a blade. We'll talk about kite power, which is something obviously it's not. It's wind energy just have a different type. And we'll also talk a little bit about some new blade recycling tech just announced by Vestas. So, Alan, let's start with the vineyard wind project. So obviously, this was a big thing with the beide administration. And this got approved pretty quick. And it's going to bring a lot of offshore wind power to your neck of the woods. Yeah. And off the coast of Massachusetts and New York and all the eastern seaboard states is that if you've ever been out there, it's kind of windy, especially to get off shore a little bit this like constant wind. So it has been talked about for years, at least 10 years now about having some wind turbines offshore. 2:07Off coast, Massachusetts, because the winds are just good and stable. And it's it's finally happening, there's been a lot of resistance in the state about it, particularly 2:17from fishermen, from people own land on the along the ocean, I've been complaining about it for a long time. So to see it, at least start is a good sign. But until it's in, I kind of wonder if it's really going to happen. So it has a long way to go. I think before we get through all the little tiny details about the the site and what's going to happen and what's going to be installed and how it's going to be installed and what effect that it has on the local economies. And all those things haven't been settled yet. So there's still details to go through. But it's it's a good start. It is a good start, well, potentially up to 4000 megawatts of capacity. And the 800 megawatt of vineyard wind project is going to be a piece of that. But so it's a lot of wind power coming to the US. So it'll be interesting to see how just how fast that comes together. And 3:11like you said, some of the industrial changes that are going to have to happen in factories and all these jobs, they're going to come to fruition, they're up in the northeast, there's going to be a ton of new jobs and training going on.

Chris Cieslak, director and founder of BladeBUG, joined Allen and Dan to talk about his unique vision for robotic wind turbine repair. There are a handful of wind turbine maintenance, repair and inspection robots making a push toward ubiquity in the wind industry, but BladeBUG (follow them on linkedin here) has a design that is unique among all the others currently in use. The BladeBUG robot crawls using six independent legs--like an actual insect--with each leg utilizing its own vacuum system (video of it in action here) to remain stuck to the blade. Watch this episode on YouTube here. In this episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, we dive into Chris' current iteration of his BladeBUG robot, the technology and unique capabilities of it, and his overall vision for wind turbine operations and maintenance. The wind industry is without a doubt moving toward automated and robotic maintenance whenever possible, and we were excited to get his input as a founder of a growing tech startup in the space. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP60 - Chris Cieslak, Founder of BladeBUG, on Their Uniquely Capable Wind Turbine Maintenance Robot 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A strike tape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. 0:37Welcome back. I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. 0:57All right, welcome back to the uptime wind energy podcast. I'm your co host, Dan Blewett. On today's show, we've got a great guest, Chris Cieslak of BladeBUG is here. And I'm also joined by my co host Allen Hall. Allen, how are you sir? Hey, great, Dan. Boy, Chris, brings a lot of information to the table during this episode. And it's really interesting to hear all the robot technology that they've been working on over in the UK. Yeah, so Chris is the founder of bladebug and a former blade design engineer with with Festus and some others. And so he's got a lot of a lot of technical know how about, you know, winter and blade design. And so when they went out to create a robotic solution, you know, he decided that, you know, a vacuum independent leg moving honestly, kind of like a crawling critter. That's why they're called BladeBUG; BladeBUG was their solution. It's a really interesting technology. And they can do a lot of things that some of the other robotics companies won't be able to. 1:54So yeah, I mean, just hearing him go into depth about some of their solutions, and the technology and the redundancy. And just, there's a lot of interesting things that go into such a high tech prototype, it is a very difficult event they're trying to do, right. So they're going to try to go out on physical and a blade, particularly offshore, and do all kinds of either measurements or repair procedures on a blade. That's a very difficult problem to try to solve. But I think they've taken several years to develop this technology. And I think that's one of the benefits to where they're at today is that they spent all the hard work and time evolving to the space they're at now into the robot they have now because without spending those years in development, you don't have a really qualified robot, in my opinion,

Thomas Schlegl, founder of Eologix sensor technology, sat down with us to talk about how their ice detection sensors increase wind turbine safety and allow for more efficient wind turbine management and production via automatic shutoffs and restarts. When turbines on a wind site start accumulating ice, local regulations may call for them to be shut down due to the fear of throwing ice, increased blade noise or other factors. With quality, direct detection, operators can have their turbines shut down and restarted automatically, saving the time and expense of maintenance crews to go perform the same job. Listen in as we talk through how the sensors work and how they're best deployed. Watch this episode on YouTube here. Follow up with Eologix via their website and on their company Linkedin page and connect with Thomas personally on Linkedin. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript: EP59 - Eologix Ice Detection Sensor Technology with Thomas Schlegl Dan: This episode is brought to you by weather guard, lightening tech at weather guard, we make wind turbine lightning protection easy. If you're a wind farm operator, stop settling for damaged turbine blades and constant downtime. Get your uptime back with our strike table lightening protection system. Learn more in today's show notes or visit weather guard, wind.com/strike tape. Welcome back. I am Alan Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection, and ways to keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co-host Dan blew it. No Allen hall today, but we've got a great guest, uh, Dr. Thomas Schlegl. He's the founder. And managing director from Eologix and they are an ice detection sensor company, uh, with some really interesting IP. So we've talked about, uh, in subsequent episodes, you know, the whole Texas, uh, you know, ice disaster from January of 2021, and we've covered it from different angles. You know, we talked to, uh, Brian from elemental codings talk about some upcoming, you know, ice, um, ice shedding coatings that allow ice to sloth off a blade. A lot faster. We've talked to a laissez Hill. He had to co from Weiss tech with their, uh, blade heating technology. And so we've, we've gotten a good idea of like some of the different ways to keep ice off your blades. Um, but today they're, uh, their technology Eologix is about, uh, ice detection. And, you know, this is going to allow. Operators to automatically stop and start their turbines when it's, uh, you know, safety regulations tell them that they have to, and if they don't have a heating technology, that's going to be their solution rise to stop their blades. Uh, you know, wait till tomorrow warms up or the next day or whatever, and then get them operating again. Um, and that's going to make the most sense for a lot of climates and, and some wind farms. So illogic has, it has interesting technology. Um, there's a essentially, it's, it's almost like a big sticker. They can stick it on the blade. Um, you can put it on every turbine in your site or a handful depending, you know, just on, what's going to be best for it. And you could also put it on, uh, potentially, uh, turbines that are closer to say a, uh, you know, a residential area or a trail or somewhere where again, there might be more human safety concerns from throwing, you know, ice, getting thrown, uh, et cetera, et cetera. So. You know, one of the things that makes this tech pretty interesting is that it's not measuring just atmospheric conditions and sort of predicting or guessing, but it's actually directly measuring, uh, the ice accumulation on the blade.

Martin Huus Bjerge, CEO of Rope Robotics, joined us to talk about their BR-8 robot that currently is capable of repairing leading edges of wind turbine blades. WATCH ON YOUTUBE HERE. Rope Robotics got its start while Martin was working for Siemens Gamesa, and has since grown through various robot iterations and evolutions to the BR-8 model today, which has proven its technology in wet repair of turbine blade leading edges. Listen as he explains the origin of his company, how a great manager at Siemens helped incubate them in the early stages, and his vision for autonomous repair, wind technician jobs and collaboration within the industry. Check out their YouTube channel for more of the BR-8 robot in action. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Transcript EP58 - Martin Huus Bjerge from Rope Robotics Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech at weather guard, we make wind turbine lightning protection easy. If you're a wind farm operator, stop settling for damaged turbine blades and constant downtime. Get your uptime back with our strike table lightning protection system. Learn more in today's show notes or visit weather guard wind.com/strike tape. Allen: Welcome back Dan: I'm Allen Hall. I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection, and ways to keep your wind turbines running All right. Welcome back to the uptime podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. We've got a great guest Martin Huus Bjerge from Rope Robotics is here. He is going to talk about his company, his technology, as they are outward, repairing leading edges of winter and blades all over the world. So Allen really interesting discussion today with Martin. They are doing a lot of cool stuff with robotics, helping to get these leading edges cleaned up. Uh, what were some of your takeaways from today's talk? Allen: Well, Martin and robotics have evolved the robot technology over the last couple, like yours to be very efficient at removing old leaning edge protection, and then cleaning the blade and applying a much more resilient, uh, leading edge erosion surface to two blades. And that's taken several years of. Engineering time technology building two to come to the platform they have today. And that platform is really versatile. And I think that's the key to what rope robotics has done is that they have a technology that can be commanded from halfway around the world. Uh, so not only can I do the repairs and if I had all this data, it can also be commanded remotely. So it's just an extremely versatile tool. And I think that's the part I pulled out from Martin was. How good this technology is because right now we're repairing leading edges with a tech group technicians. That's what we're doing. And it's sort of a manual process and, and, and Martins company is going to make it a lot more Dan: automated. Yeah. So in today's talk, you'll hear a lot about the, the actual sort of nuts and bolts, I guess, quite literally the, the technology in the robot itself, how it works, how they apply their solution, all that sort of stuff. Uh, also about how the company found was founded, which is really interesting. So they were sort of incubated, uh, by Siemens, uh, cause Martin was a, um, a long time employee of Siemens. So he cut his teeth, learning about all the. All the ins and outs of a, of a big, uh, obviously wind energy company. And when he had this idea of brought to his management and they said, yeah, we actually support you. Um, you know, getting your company off the ground and, you know, doing some R and D and they were really, like I said,

In this special episode, Allen and Dan discuss aerospace engineering and the skills that are more important, relevant and evolving in 2021. As aircraft become more and more complex, work shifts increasingly online and remote, and companies push their employees to be more productive, what does the the modern aerospace engineer look like? Watch this episode on YouTube here. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! EP49 Transcript - What Skills Do Aerospace Engineers Need in 2021? you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection all right welcome back to the struck podcast on today's episode we're going to have a little bit of a different format kind of do a Q&A dialogue with Allen about the state of aerospace engineering and engineering in general talk about jobs and education and some of the different skills that are really important especially now in 2020 as you know the landscape is changing and communication digitally and in person rapidly changing and so we'll kind of dive into that today so Allen let's start um you know you have just recently hired a new engineer to the team so let's start with some of the skills that you value today and then we'll kind of double back um through you know your education and some of those skills that are maybe more valuable when you were younger and uh you know a young blood engineer but let's let's talk about your your new hire and some of the things that you are looking for in an employee it is unique in the aerospace world when you're trying to bring somebody new on and we we are constantly looking for the best engineers we can find and so when we we come across one we tend to grab them and what do i mean by uh really good engineers what i mean by that is they have a couple of different skill sets uh what scott adams would call a talent stack so i want to steal that term but it's a talent stack and that talent stack is uh things that are developed uh usually outside the office place uh and or the office environment uh from what i've seen um it's a combination of one being able to work with others to play well on the playground right and that that you can relate to others that have uh you know have a little bit of fun but also be serious at the same time and uh negotiate right i think part of it's just a negotiation in engineering is a lot of negotiation a lot of times and being able to do that and on top of actually having some engineering skills having the the book knowledge that you need to have an engineering degree and to do it well on top of having the ability to turn a wrench and to understand what it means to turn a wrench or have not be willing be willing to get your hands dirty if needed those those skill sets really combine into what i always feel is a very useful versatile engineering person let me run with one of those for a second so we've talked about boeing a lot on the show and in the past boeing did a lot more of their manufacturing in-house right they produced much more of the entire aircraft themselves now speared air systems those you know huge sections of the fuselage and and and with airbus also not just boeing you know you're essentially getting huge pieces coming together to be assembled so i can imagine that if you're uh an engineer for boeing and now you've got to work with engineers from spirit and everything's got to be kosher everything's got to fit snugly together with these incredible tolerances that's where it seems like it you can't just be the engineer because i know engineers have you know my dad's an engineer they have the reputation sometimes of being you know just they're at their desk and they're really good at what they do but don't talk to them right t...

Ehang is the target of a class action lawsuit, claiming the company has misled shareholders--what will this mean for the Chinese EVTOL company? Boeing reports a significant increase in orders, reaching positive order flow for the first time since 2019. Southwest is nearing an order of 300 737 MAX aircraft, which is more good news for commercial air travel, and Honeywell reveals their new turbogenerator, which could have huge implications for EVTOLs needing to rely on more than just battery power. And speaking of battery power, can Lithium-Sulfur batteries make good on significant energy density promises? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP48 - Ehang Lawsuit; Boeing Orders Surge; Southwest Ready to Buy More 737 MAX Planes; Honeywell Turbogenerator you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection all right welcome back to the struck podcast i'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's episode in our new segment we'll talk about Boeing has a net positive on their orders for the first time since 2019 southwest is looking to order 300 737 maxes which obviously ties into both and the code recovery which is great in our engineering segment we'll talk about honeywell they have a new turbo generator that can potentially power a lot of hybrid electric aircraft in the future which also runs on biofuel and then our evtol segment we're going to talk about ehang a new lawsuit was filed today against them we'll talk about the loyal wingman drone which is a boeing project out of australia and lastly we'll talk about lithium sulfur batteries and the implications they might have on the electric aircraft market so alan let's first talk about boeing this is good news they've got net positive orders since first time since 2019 and um it sounds like things are on the up and up yeah well at least in terms of 737 max sales they're going to be uh because there's just going to be a huge backlog of companies that were waiting for the aircraft to get quote unquote re-certified uh for use again so you're gonna see that airplane explode and they had a couple hundred sitting on the tarmac waiting to be sold since 2019 to early 2020 so it's it's there's going to be a huge surge of uh of sales that happen over the next year uh to to get that backlog into service which makes sense right i mean i don't know how our airbus is ever going to keep up with that because you just had those contained contained inventory that had that had been sold that you couldn't release and so now you can release it that's not you can't really compare boeing and airbus in that situation at all that's not fair that's fair yeah so it sounds like in february 2021 they booked 82 aircraft orders 27 kc-46s which was aircraft or air force order uh 14 747 maxes a 747-8 some 787 dreamliners 11 777 x's which went are going to singapore airlines so so yeah all all in all it sounds like you know the recovery is starting to shape up and obviously in the stock market and let's shift to south southwest here like southwest's uh stock is doing very well they're in the low 60s now um you know down i mean they were struggling in the summer right i mean that was a scary time warren buffett sold out a lot of his southwest stock so some pretty big recoveries and of course i'm not sure those are going to match like their revenues obviously but there's a lot of optimism right and so uh and with southwest they're just announced that they're close to an order it's not in the books yet for 300 737 maxes now do you feel like the public is going to understand this because the 737 max is still this embattled scary plane that people are probably rapidly forgetting about but still you know there's that ...

GM just unveiled a new EVTOL concept - will it actually work? Bombardier has a high-tech wing factory - what makes it so unique? We also discuss Jaunt Air Mobility's pursuit of a potential hybrid power source and news of Archer partnering with Fiat Chrysler on the EVTOL front. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! EP43 Transcript - Bombardier's Wing Factory; Jaunt Explores Hybrid Fuel System & GM's new EVTOL Concept? All right. We'll come back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's podcast. First thing we're gonna talk about in the new section, unfortunately is the, the crash of the recent 737 500 aircraft out in Indonesia. So we'll talk a little bit about that. In our second segment, we're going to talk about Bombardier.They have a pretty amazing factory where they produce wings and they're pretty just high-tech in general, Allen's worked there in the past. So we're gonna talk about some of their tech as far as their assembly line goes and all that stuff. And in our EVTOL segment today, we're going to talk about JASA merging it's general aviation and VTL certification.John exploring their fuel system to potentially extend the range, which is something we actually chatted about last week, Archer finding a production partner and GM their their crack at the EVTOL market. And how far it's now lagging behind. So, Allen, let's start with the Boeing seven 37 so that crashed out of Indonesia.It has gotten a lot of press, obviously, cause you know, terrible, terrible accident. But it wasn't in the air very long. And then it seems a plummeted 10,000 feet in less than a minute. And can you just shed some perspective on that? That seems like a really precipitous drop. Yeah. Thth the aircraft was at about 10,000 feet.It had taken off and headed over the, over the water and then just seem to disappear. And there were some reports from some ships nearby that watched the aircraft plummeted to the ocean, and then it satellite that the aircraft was essentially. Full nose, dive right into the water, which indicates really one of two things that the aircraft has, something, something severely wrong with it, then yeah, you can kind of get in those situations, you stall it and push the nose down and continue to push the nose down.And then obviously you will crash that sort of situation. But most aircraft, when they have some power plant problem of some sort, don't go plummeting downward like that. The airplanes are. Can glide. And you would think you would try to set it up to glide, but it just leads you to think that one of two things happen here, either the pilot slash pilots decided that for whatever reason they were disoriented or they were, and maybe in some cases there's been cases of suicide suicides that they just put the nose down and drove it into the water.The other possibility is you have some control flight surface. Anomaly where it just drives a nose down in the pilots. You can't fight it off. As soon as they find the black boxes for that aircraft are going to have a pretty good indication. And then in an hour or two, usually of what the flight parameters were, airspeeds attitudes cockpit.Cockpit voice recorder will tell you a lot. I could have some previous crashes, so there's a lot still to be learned here, but this is not, I think the, one of the first things that happen and every ticket held their breath. As soon as I saw this news was. Is it a, is it a max airplane, right? Is it something to do with the M cast system?You know, weird things happen? It doesn't sound like it's a dash 500. Right. And it was built back in the nineties. Is that26 years old? That plane? Yeah. Okay.So it's been around a long time. I'd also heard it was a former continental aircraft. It came from the United States originally flew l...

Lilium's CEO has publicly declared the desire to go public in the near future - but will it work? Can certification really be attained in just a few years? Elbit creates UAVs and their new models are garnering attention. And, a great article on agile engineering discussed its application to the EVTOL market and whether or not the approach can work. This and more on the Struck Aerospace Engineering Podcast EP42. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! EP42 - Lilium Going Public? Elbit UAVs & Can Agile Engineering Work for the EVTOL Infrastructure? you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection welcome back to the struck podcast i'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show uh number one we're going to talk about oxford university has a interesting report out says they can make jet fuel from atmospheric co2 so really interesting development we'll chat a little bit about a little bit about that the cessna citation is now 50 years old coming up this year in 2021 so we'll talk about why that's important with this monumental little plane we'll talk about venus does lightning strike on venus these are good questions um in our engineering segment today we'll talk about while agile engineering uh which is obviously a sort of a mainstay in silicon valley you know move fast develop your prototypes you know the those the saying move fast and break stuff does that really apply to maybe the evtol market and uh air travel in general probably not and then lastly in our evtol segment we're going to talk about Elbit and a bunch about Lilium which a lot of really interesting news uh in the in the news cycle recently with them so al first let's start with oxford university so they said they can use iron to turn carbon dioxide into jet fuel what's your take on this well there's been a number of different ways to make fuels from and you see some of this on television where they've used algae to make hydrocarbons or catalysts like in this oxford study it was a catalyst to create jet fuel so there's a number of different ways to create hydrocarbons the question is what is it cost effective or not and at this point the catalyst method hasn't been very cost effective or has used some rare earth metals like cobalt to do it this uses a obviously a lot cheaper materials to do it but there's still it's an energy-intensive process is it cheaper to do it this way or is it cheaper to refine petroleums to get to the jet fuel it's going to take time on both sides i know there's a big push in europe to make quote-unquote cleaner fuels this wouldn't necessarily be cleaner but the carbon dioxide that goes into it is the carbon dioxide comes out of it so i guess it's carbon dioxide neutral if that's an advantage but what's the cost right airlines spend so much money on fuel right now if you doubled or tripled that you would put airlines out of business a number of them would go out of business can't afford it so there's a lot of more work to do there it it is a good sign but i always when i see these i always always think all right this got to get some scale to it and see if you can drive down the cost just like tesla's doing on like the gigafactory for the for the batteries they're going to drive down the cost we're going to produce them in massive scales this hasn't been scaled up yet they're still in the laboratory so you're at least five to ten years away from having something real and then another couple of years away before the certification authorities would even let you use it uh so yeah so it'd be it would take a while and is that going to be chased out of the equation by electric power by hydrogen obviously we talked a bunch about hydrogen fuel cell technol...

In this episode of the Struck Aerospace engineering podcast, we discuss the design of Pratt & Whitney GTF geared turbofan engines - they're incredibly fuel efficient--what makes them different? We also discuss the EPA's new emissions rules for commercial and large business aircraft, which will take effect for new designs in 2020 and others in 2028. We also discuss EASA being urged by families to NOT return the Boeing 737 MAX to service just yet, FAA Drone ID Rules, a new Airbus helicopter drone and more. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript EP41 - Pratt and Whitney GTF Engines, EPA Aircraft Emissions Standards, & Will EASA Let the 737 MAX Fly? All right. Welcome back to the struck podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. On today's episode. We're going to cover first in our new section. Uh, families are urging. Yassa not yet to approve the seven 37 max, even though it seems like a return to air worthiness is, uh, obviously right up upon the European union, the seven 37 is back in service in the U S but families are still urging.So we'll talk, uh, talk a little bit about that today. Uh, the EPA is finalizing the first ever airplane emissions rules, which sounds like a good thing on the surface. Uh, but Allen's take here, I think is, uh, A little bit, not surprising, but it's an insider's take. And so we'll chat a little bit about why, um, EPA emissions rules for airplanes might be a little misleading and maybe not be the best thing.Uh, all things considered and our engineering segment. We're gonna talk about Pratt and Whitney engines. Um, there's a new factory North Carolina. And, uh, they're GTF engines have gotten really high, high marks on reliability. So we'll chat about some of the technology there. And lastly, on our EBTL segment, we're going to talk about the new FAA drone ID rules.So these aren't, these are obviously EVTOLs, but not in the traditional sense that we talk about in most of our episodes, but this is a really interesting thing. And it's going to be important as the drone, uh, capacity increases in the airways. And lastly, the Airbus drone VSR700, uh, I was getting pretty close to landing on Navy ships, which is a, apparently a pretty interesting feat of engineering.So Alan, let's start with EASA and these families over in Europe who are urging, um, the certification organization to, um, delay the re-entry of the 737 max. So is this. Pretty typical after a crashes like these after a safety situation like this, or is this, um, is it atypical more and more common? I would say that the families take more legal steps against the aircraft companies and against the certification authorities to speak in saying that, uh, they have a say in the certification process and, and are, are trying to push additional.What they would believe to be additional safety measures onto the aircraft? Uh, the one in particular is they would like to see a third angle of attack sensor used on the 737. The latest update from all the safety reviews is that they've added a second AOA or the cross comparing the AOS that they have on the aircraft right now.So that if there's some dispute one's not working correctly, it's going to flag it and it's going to. Therefore disengaging them caste system, the updated and caste system, but they think they ought to have a third one there as a compare for the other two. And, um, there's regulations set up about that and about the reliability of that system and what the failure modes are.And. The families just disagree now, will that stop EASA from moving forward? I don't think so. Uh, unless there was some political reasons to use the families in, in leverage that to delay the start of the 737 max in Europe, which they could clearly do. But I think on the certification side, I don't.

The Blade helicopter rental company is eyeing the EVTOL market, Boeing finds new 787 fuselage quality problems and NASA reaches new milestones with its X-59 wing design. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP39 - Blade Entering the EVTOL Market; Boeing 787 Fuselage Issues and NASA X-59 Milestones All right, welcome back to the struck podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's show. We've got a good docket of topics. Number one, we're going to talk about the eco pulse hybrid designs. Uh, interesting new aircraft. And we'll talk about some of that. Uh, NASA supersonic X-59 has a wing, a wing milestone. So some, uh, good work from NASA. And we'll chat a little about that. And then obviously Virgin galactic, um, still big and has his hands in lots of different industries, but we're going to chat a little bit about their space tourism play in their headache. Concerning, but, um, sit still safe, sort of a board as part of the recent, one of the recent test flights in our engineering segment, we're going to talk about the Boeing 787, continuing to have fuselage issues. Some new slight defects have been detected. And we're going to chat a little bit about the way carbon fiber and other materials are machine and manufactured and how, just how difficult it is to get some of these really high tolerance parts built. Right. And then lastly, we're going to chat about blade, which is a helicopter, a rental service and their potential entrance into the EVTOL market. So, Allen, how are things going? We're closing on the holidays. Allen Hall: Yeah, it's going to snow first big grill, snow storm, or the season is happening now, which means all our aerospace engineering companies in the Northeast are preparing for the worst, but that's okay. You know, it's part of this seasonal shift and we're getting close to the holidays, Christmas and new year and Hanukkah and everything's starting. So that's exciting. Dan: Yeah. It's um, well it's been currently snowing and. It's kind of half raining most of the day today. So it's definitely feeling Christmas-y that's for sure. So jumping into it today, what is, uh, striking to you about this eco pulse distributed propulsion hybrid aircraft it's coming out of France? Um, this is news from to lose. Um, but tell us a little bit about what this propulsion system is and what do you think the long-term ramifications are? Allen Hall: Well, it's first off, it's being funded by the French government. And it is essentially a consortium of French companies like, uh, saffron that makes electric motors and it is, it'd be very similar to what happened to the United States when there's government funding for a project where you're trying to. Boost the industry and get to the next steps. Uh, so the airplane itself, I don't know if the airplane's all that important. Maybe it is in a longer scheme of things, as much as developing the system components and the products that they can offer worldwide in which. They are totally going to do so think of it as a, as a government funded jobs program a little bit, but also a technology development program that gives those companies resources. So the, the company names, it was dark, soft run and Airbus, um, tied in with w what was it? Core act, a civil aviation resource council in France to tie them all together and see where they can come up with an aircraft. It will be a demonstrator more than likely just to. Get something out there, but I know there's, if you, if I'm working a lot of different aircraft programs concurrently right now, and you hear those names pop up more frequently in the last six months, uh, for electric propulsion systems. So, you know, that, that, that funding, that the government France is actually going somewhere there actually,

In this episode we discuss the life of test pilot Chuck Yeager, the trust issues that might surround the Boeing 737 Max and how the public will get past them, plus Uber Elevate's sale to Joby. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! EP38 Transcript - Chuck Yeager, Uber Elevate Sold to Joby Aviation & Boeing 737 Max Trust Issues welcome back to the struck podcast I'm your co-host Dan Blewett and on today's show we've got a couple of major topics not as many uh scatter shot ones today but number one we're gonna chat about Chuck Yeager the uh the legendary pilot has passed away so i know Allen's got a a lot a lot to say about his legacy in our engineering segment we'll talk about the 737 max and specifically how consumers can get confidence back in this plane because i think it's really interesting most of us who are not aviation lifers aerospace you know engineers we don't really know what happens with the faa i mean we've heard on one hand this is a like the most technologically amazing plane like it's one of the best planes ever created but then it's crashed twice and it's been this villain of the story so we'll talk about how those two pieces get married and how people get back uh flying in the 737 max with confidence and lastly we'll talk about uber elevate who we did chat about last week and they were sold to gob aviation uh right after we had recorded that show so we're going to talk about uber and joby and that whole outlook so alan number one let's talk about chuck yeager so who was chuck yeager chuck yeager is probably the the most identifiable recognizable test pilot in the world he's a legend yeah yeah there's really two i think uh and on the soviet side it's trying to be yuri gagarin just because flying into space that's a big name is the test pilot and on the american side it tends to be chuck yeager there's a couple others in america that people could rattle off if you're in aviation but chicken was always the one and a lot of it had to do with the movie that was made based upon the book the right stuff uh that tom wolf wrote years and years ago back in the 80s and the thing about chuck egger and if if you're interested in aviation you should read chuck yeager's book the autobiography because it explains a lot about his his life uh he came from i believe it's west virginia if i remember correctly as a kid really young enlisted wanted to fly ended up in world war ii shooting down some enemy aircraft got shot down in france uh hid out in france him and another pilot i think he carried another injured pilot across the pyrenees mountains and if you've ever been to the pyrenees mountains you know because he had to get spain but if you've ever been to the pyrenees mountains or seen the pyrenees mountain it's like it's like the rockies in the united states those mountains are huge and it's cold up there and there's snow on them and they were evading uh german soldiers all the way to get to spain and once he got back into spain he kind of slipped back to the united states and then started flying again in combat and then after the war he ended up working in ohio at dayton ohio for a little while and then getting sent to edwards air force base or air base i guess at the time and uh becoming a test pilot obviously his most recognizable uh claim to fame was break the first person to break the sound barrier back in 1947 with the bell x1 which was essentially a rocket ship with wings and it was full of rocket motors and the and he did it while he had a couple of busted ribs and a banged up shoulder because he had he had fallen off a horse the night before uh wow yeah so he's sort of crazy he's not the biggest physical guy at the time a lot of touch pilots you couldn't it's like astronauts at the time they're not the tallest people you see in the world t...

In this episode of the Struck Aerospace Engineering Podcast, we discuss how the GAO is talking with Boeing about their aging workforce - half of Boeing FAA delegates will be of retirement age in just 5 years, which is worrisome. The Eurocopter X3 broke the speed record for a helicopter, and is an impressive machine. We discuss the Beta Technologies EVTOL making an important flight, Eviation getting a new partner on composite doors plus much more on this episode. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverters. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP35 - Boeing vs GAO, Eviation Partners on Composites; Eurocopter X3 Breaks Helicopter Speed Record This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightening Tech. At Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You are listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. I'm Allen Hall. And here on struck, we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightening protection. All right. Welcome back to the struck aerospace engineering podcast on today's episode. In our new segment, we're gonna talk about easy jet. There was a lightning strike that caused that flight to be diverted kind of scary, but everyone was okay. Secondly, we're talking about the FAA did GAO here in the U S has talked about that. A lot of, uh, engineers are going to be hitting retirement age pretty soon, and there's some key training and competency gaps that need to be addressed. It's a really interesting topic right there. Uh, we're going to chat a little bit about Boeing and some of their UV technology and other technologies they've developed to help clean airplanes. Obviously COVID is still affecting a lot of the way we travel. And speaking of the way COVID is affecting travel. Australia has some new protocols potentially, uh, in place soon that will keep, uh, honestly passengers pretty happy, but also make screening a lot easier and safer potentially in our engineering segment. We're going to talk about the, uh, the Eurocopter X3, which has set a new speed record for a helicopter and also the supersonic business jet that just went through wind tunnel testing. And then lastly, in our EVTOL segment, we're going to talk about Eviation, uh, getting a partner for composite doors and lastly, the Beta Technologies EVTOL and a flight test they recently completed. So Allen let's talk first with some lightning news, easy jet. They think they got struck by lightning. But take us through that scenario. What happened? Well, there's, there's, there's a lot happening in this particular one. So it's flying from, uh, essentially Scotland down to Southern England. And there was a lightning strike on the communication tower down and in Bristol. And what happens in a lot of cases, this is not a normal, but when lightning strikes the airport, you can lose airport lighting, which is a big deal, or you can lose communication tower. And when you lose communication to the aircraft that are coming in to the airport, uh, you. You lose control of traffic. So you, you probably will end up diverting somewhere, which is what happened. They ended up diverting to Birmingham and then being bust the bus down at night time to where they needed to go. So a lot of the airports though have lightning protection because this is not infrequent and a lot of the gear. Uh, communications gear and, uh, anything that may be susceptible to lightning strike has protection in it. So it makes you think something happened, uh, loss of power loss piece of damaged equipment, which just makes for a fun flight because you're not expecting that to happen. If you know, usually aircraft gets struck not, not the airport, but the airport gets struck in this case. It made it for a little bit of an adventure. So bigger story here.

Joby Aviation has released numerous patents, giving a glimpse into their technology. Bye Aerospace partners with Korean company Aerospace9 in what looks like a very lucrative deal. Spirit Aerosystems revealed Q3 results, and we discuss the future of the Airbus A380, which one airline recently has phased out of commercial use. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript EP34 - Is the Airbus A380 Going Away? Bye Aerospace Gets Key Partnership & Joby Aviation Releases Patents You're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen Hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection all right welcome back to the struck podcast this is episode 34 and on today's show we've got some news some engineering and some evtol action for you today so number one we're gonna chat about the A380 one of airbus's largest offerings uh kind of being phased out it sounds like a recent incident with an a320 that was not down per se not almost down i don't think it was really almost down but it sounds like the pilots were very heavily effective which put them in a really scary situation uh by fumes coming in the cockpit which is crazy also we're going to chat a little bit about spirit era systems third quarter results and some optimism from their leadership in our engineering segment we're going to talk about by aerospace they've got an investment from a Korean company which sounds promising and lastly in the evtol segment we'll chat about Joby who has recently filed a bunch of patents which is starting to shed some light on some other technology so Allen first let's start with the a380 so Hi-fly which is one of only apparently 15 companies that ever leased or operated uh the a380 because they're such a darn big aircraft but they said they're planning to phase this out they've done three years of of leasing it and now they're gonna kind of move forward and swap their a380s for more a330s so is this a trend that you expect to continue yeah that's why the 747 has gone away also and that in the triple 7's having a little bit of struggle on the new development side is four engine airplanes and large uh multi-aisle airplanes are going away because international travel has gone to zero and it doesn't make any sense to have four engines anymore and as we there's some huge consolidation in the industry the a380 is is and it seems hard to believe because it hasn't been around all that long but the a380 it's going away and it'd be in a couple of years you won't be able to see it really maybe besides the museum and it's hard to think about the evolution of aircraft because we there's some aircraft that have been around so long that you just come ubiquitous that you could say 747 to pretty much anybody in the planet and they even know what you're talking about but they're in that same cycle there's been all kinds of airplanes that have come and gone and it takes a very unique aircraft to last tens and twenties and thirty year spans it just doesn't happen all that often so uh it is special that some of these airplanes have lived as long as they have and been in service as long as they have the a380 really wasn't one of them it was pushing a particular segment of the aircraft market the the large volume traffic market the upper end of the marketplace for the most part uh because you're burning a bunch of fuel and it just never and long haul too so it just didn't really make any sense after a while and and even though fuel prices are low right now it just there's just not a customer base for it it just really isn't and i think you'll see a lot of other airplanes kind of get stuck in that same mold anything that is really dedicated international travel routes is going to have problems for the next year or two until things s...

We talked about Southwest CEO Gary Kelly's letter to employees and the Cyclogyro EVTOL's Crazy Design - can it work? We also discussed Boeing 747 fuel tank ignition problems, the Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty, Learjet 75 Liberty and much more. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP30 - Cyclogyro EVTOL's Crazy Design; Boeing 747 Fuel Tank Ignition Warning; Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty vs Learjet 75 Liberty & More you're listening to the struck podcast i'm Dan Blewett i'm Allen hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection all right welcome back this is the struck podcast episode 3-0 the big 30. so moving right along here in today's episode we've got a bunch of different topics number one we're gonna talk a little bit about southwest airlines Gary Kelly the ceo released a letter to his employees recently just talking about the trouble that the company is in so we'll chat a little bit about that lots of boeing news this week uh first uh we'll talk about how boeing's consolidating dreamliner production in south carolina we're also going to chat a little bit about a bird strike actually in a chinese jet fighter which caused the plane to crash and he had to eject so we'll chat a little bit about that uh we'll also talk go back to boeing with the 747 and 767 receiving an faa warning about fuel tank ignition and what the implications might be there lastly we're going to talk about two different business jets the learjet liberty 75 and the airbus acj220 uh pretty interesting to kind of compare and contrast some of the the uh marketing ideas i guess uh in the upgrades of these two jets and then lastly in our evtol segment we'll chat about the cyclogyro one of the more bizarre designs that we've talked about here on the show and uh we'll chat also a little bit about volocopter and some other plans for the olympics so alan let's talk about southwest probably your favorite airline right i it is i would say it's mine but i had some i had a period of rough flights with them not physically rough but just delays delays and like they were telling me that my flight was delayed and then they undelayed it and it was like physically impossible to make the flight this happened three times something like that so anyway but i do respect southwest they've always had good leadership it seems like they are still doing great things as far as you know their leadership Gary Kelly is reducing his own salary to zero through the end of next year and he's asked for a 10 to 20 pay cut from many in leadership and he's trying to avoid layoffs so does this come as a surprise to you in general i mean do you think things are getting better or what's what's your take here well i don't think airline flights have really increased in terms of number of passengers very much over the last couple of months and with the prognosis that we are probably three months out right now between two and three months out from vaccinations and really protecting the most vulnerable not you know people like us which are pretty healthy for the most part are not going to get vaccinated first we're going to be probably last in line so it's going to you know drag out the airline thing i everybody is still there's still a lot of contention about whether it's safe to travel on an airplane and i think it's all about risk and reward and there everything we do today and everything you do every day is full of risk and we have to evaluate risk i do think one of the features of americans in general not to say we're not much different than other countries but i think there's this part of america which is uh we take risks and we do we risk freedoms larger than we do uh health consequences you see it all the time america america yeah well it just it just sort of sort...

In this episode we discuss Boeing 787 tail fin safety issues that appear to be related to shimming. The Boeing 737 Max also went through EASA testing, and a bit of it is beginning to feel politically charged...the Pipistrel Nuuva V300 is a potentially game-changing cargo EVTOL aircraft that could be delivering cargo to remote locations that were previously accessible only by helicopter. Lastly, we dive into the technology behind Chevrons, serrations cut into the trailing edges of jet engine nacelles and nozzles that reduce noise. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP26 Boeing 787 Tail Fin Problems; Pipistrel Nuuva V300 & Chevrons on Jet Engines; Boeing 737 EASA Testing Dan: And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightening protection. All right, welcome back. This is the struck podcast episode 26. I am your cohost Dan Blewett and I'm joined here. Remotely with our lighting protection expert. Allen Hall, Allen, how are you? Allen Hall: Hey, great. Dan, boy--another troubling week for Boeing with the seven 87 on the engineering side of all things, uh, is just the hits. Keep on coming there. It's gotta stop at some point. Don't you think? Dan: You think so it's like spreading amongst their fleet now. So in today's show, we're going to start with some of the 737 max testing. So Yas has been testing them and we'll talk about. What they, uh, what they're doing and how it's going. Um, and our engineering segment where we're talking about Boeing 787 issues. So the Dreamliners got some vertical fin safety issues. Uh, it sounds like shim problems, so yikes and other potential nightmare, I guess, for right now. Um, also we're going to chat a little bit about chevrons and their use in reducing, uh, engine noise. Cause obviously jet engines are like the. Most intensely loud things on the planet. So every effort to reduce that as important, even a couple of decibels. And then lastly, in our electric tech session, we'll talk about, uh, PIPA stroll. And one of their new cargo planes that they're hoping can really take off. Uh, no pun intended. The Nuuva V300 is they're hoping can tackle, uh, the helicopter market and replace them where, you know, we've got to ship cargo out to an oil rig, or we got to ship it out. So some other place where helicopters traditionally, the only place that can get there, but these EVTOLs are going to be coming for that market. So I know you, um, Are a proponent of getting away from helicopters, which are many respects. Do you think more difficult to maintain and have some pretty spectacular failures when they do fail? Which is scary. So, anyway, so let's talk with, uh, let's talk first about the 737 max. So Yas has been testing it. How has it been going? Allen Hall: 737 flight testing concluded up in Vancouver, British Columbia, uh, just recently with, um, looked like there was multiple certification authorities, uh, participating in that, uh, EASA, obviously transport Canada would have been there and it sounds like the Brazilians were there too. So there is. A lot of eyeballs on the 737, the, the flight Teske, uh, would be a low risk thing at this point. So there has been at least listened to the news. Reports has been no unexpected outcome of that. Boeing would have had been flying at any way. And check in to make sure that the angle of attack sensors and all the, um, all the sort of the flight management, uh, difficulties that they had would have, would have been taken care of. So it's, it's a check in the box, but also to, to, uh, have some external eyes watching what happens in the cockpit and see how pilots respond to stuff. So, um, that's a good checkpoint to have done. The next step though, is probably the most important,

In this episode, we discuss the odds of catching COVID-19 on a flight, as explained in an interesting new article that explores proximity to other passengers and more. Boeing may be fined $1.25 million in a clear-cut case of undue pressure applied to engineers in their South Carolina plant. And, Allen likes the Volocopter EVTOL design - is it a future winner in the market? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: Struck Podcast EP23 - Odds of Catching COVID on a Plane? Boeing In Trouble for Undue Pressure, Plus: Is Volocopter an EVTOL Leader? Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett  Allen: I'm Allen hall.  Dan: And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightning protection. All right. Welcome back. This is the Struck podcast episode 23, I'm your cohost, Dan Blewett. And in today's episode, we've got a lot of good stuff to cover first interesting article about the odds of catching COVID-19 on a flight, which uses some, uh, percentages. And this was actually a really interesting read. Glad we found this article. Um, we're gonna talk a little bit about the advantages and challenges of electric powered airliners, which are potentially in our future. Maybe allow along with, uh, with hydrogen as well. We know all these, all these technologies are being explored by all these major companies and our engineering segment. We're going to talk about Boeing in trouble, again, with a undue pressure that they've been applying to some safety reps out of their South Carolina, uh, factory. And. Man, that's been an ongoing thing. We've talked about that before and here we are again, and we're also going to chat a little bit about vertical airspace and Honeywell. They're doing some interesting stuff together. And lastly, in our electric texts segment, we're going to talk about Vola copter, which. Yeah, Alan, there you are. How are you, sir? You are very outspoken about these designs. And this one in my view is like the most, it looks like a toy plastic helicopter of all of them, but you're digging it. So why?  Allen: Yeah, I think it's cool. I think it's cool. A bit of flying a human in it. So that puts him ahead of everybody else on my scale.  Dan: Yeah. Well, your proof's in the pudding, I guess so. Well, let's, let's talk about this before we get there later, let's talk about the odds of catching covert in a flight. And so. Planes are flying an increasing amount. Obviously it's still knower like normal, but we're getting back there. And so far it doesn't seem like these are the, these are the vehicles of, of infection. Like, it doesn't seem like there's mass spread coming from airliners. And they're talking about in this article, I'm at a Bloomberg, which is really interesting. Uh, just about the odds of getting it. You know, the, basically this a researcher, mr. Barnett is talking about that you have a base sale, one in 4,300 chance of getting COVID-19 on a full two hour flight. Um, so yeah. What, what, what were your takeaways from this article?  Allen: Well, that's the, that, that number is based upon just the, having somebody sitting next to you with a, uh, sitting extra for two hours and everybody's mast, obviously. So there's, uh, you know, the percentages kind of change depending on where you are in the aircraft rights. So. That's why the probabilities are so low that unless you're really sitting real close to that particular person. And there's some, some probabilities with that. I, it seems like the there's enough flight data and enough tracing history right now that there's, I think you could.

In this episode we discuss BAE's partnership with Jaunt Air Mobility, Boeing's continued trouble delivering airplanes, a lightning strike to an Airbus A320 in New Zealand and more. We also take a look at the VoltAero Cassio, a unique medium-range hybrid electric aircraft prototype and discuss its road to airworthiness certification. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: Struck Podcast EP22 - Boeing's Tough Sales Month; An Airbus A320 Gets Struck By Lightning, BAE & Jaunt Air Partner on Flight Controls, Plus VoltAero's Hybrid Electric, Aircraft, the Cassio Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You are listening to the Struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett.  Allen: I'm Allen hall.  Dan: And here on Struck, we talk about everything aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightning protection. Alright, I'll come back to the Struck podcast. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett. And we've got a great show for you here today. And our first segment, we're going to cover some kind of scary news, uh, on an Airbus, uh, out of New Zealand was diverted after a lightning strike. So we'll, we'll chat a little bit about that. Um, Boeing seven 37 max might be delayed again. I mean, the saga continues, uh, we'll chat a little bit more about Boeing and the, the amount of jets they delivered this quarter or not this quarter, but this past month, which was crazy low, um, and a little weird quarantine run in from, uh, unlucky a plane full of people. So that's a, some. Kind of funny, uh, COVID news here, but in our engineering segment, we'll talk a little bit about, uh, BAE working with John's, um, on flight control actuators, and then our EVT O L of the week. We're going to talk about the connect air, uh, the volt Aero Casio, which is a four Cedar, um, actually maybe larger pass, uh, passenger capacity. So pretty interesting little pusher, plane Allen, what is going on?  Allen: Well, it it's really strange aircraft news over the last week or two. I know it, it seems like airlines are struggling and they are, uh, but I got to say that the aircraft industry in terms of projects has been relatively busy and that's a good positive sign because it's all those little projects that get rolling that turn into larger products later on. So. I think so.  Dan: Well, you said you've gotten some new, some new projects recently, right?  Allen: Yeah. Several. Uh, and that always comes and sometimes it just comes just because everybody's sort of back from vacation, August early August, people like to take off and then they come back and, you know, mid August, September and things start rolling again. It's just kind of like the shutdown around Christmas and January is always chaos. Mid January is so positive. Some positive things going on out there.  Dan: Well, that's, that's good. That's good news for sure. Everyone wants to get back to work and you see good people get rehired and the industry get back to normal. That's for sure. So let's on that note, let's start first with Boeing and how many jets they've delivered. So in July, 2018, and this is an article from Barron's. They deliver 39 jets, uh, this past July, they delivered four. So what do you think about these numbers? Obviously, this isn't surprising anyone given how insane this year has been. Again, my prediction is still, we still have four months to go to see if the crackin comes out of the deep sea. Um, just to cap off this crazy year. But, I mean, what is your sentiment about four planes being delivered?  Allen: Well, the, the issue really for Boeing is the seven 37 max. And because of COVID, there's not a lot of international flights going on.

In this episode we chat about the scary ransomware attack that sent Garmin scrambling to get their systems back up. Airbus announced successful autonomous takeoffs and landings; the Sabrewing EVTOL that will haul cargo is getting some press; And Lilium explains why they're no longer going after the short-range air taxi market--is it perhaps not a viable market? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP20 - The Garmin Ransomware Attack; Airbus Makes Autonomous Takeoff & Landing; Sabrewing EVTOL for Cargo Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard, Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You are listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on Struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightning protection. All right, welcome back. This is the struck podcast. This is the big 2-0 Alan--episode 20. How you doing? Allen Hall: Great, Dan sighting, another great week of news and aviation, you know, it seems slow out there and not literal airplanes are flying. Their aviation business is busy. Dan: Yeah. So today, uh, we're going to cover a bunch of different topics. So in our new section, um, what seems to be a ransomware attack at Garmin? Pretty scary stuff. Uh, we're gonna chat a little bit about Airbus. Um, They're autonomous taxi, takeoff done some landing tests, really interesting stuff there, and a little bit of a scary storm incident out of Russia with a quite old AN-24 aircraft. Uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about the EPA and some potential, um, environmental limits. They're going to set on aircraft. It seems like so much missions testing. And lastly, a couple different, uh, EVTOL's, uh, so Sabrewing, they've got some interesting stuff going along with cargo transport, and lastly, a pretty interesting letter from Lilium about their view on really short trip, uh, flights. So how let's get started with Garmin. So they haven't said the words ransom, but this seems textbook ransomware, which is really scary for any business owner. When you start to hear these, especially with bigger companies, but what's your take here with the garments situation. Allen Hall: We've been seeing a lot more ransomware attacks in aerospace in the last six months to a year. And it's not surprising that Garmin was the focus of one of those ransomware attacks, just because they're one of the more prominent electronic, uh, highly integrated aviation AVN X companies, but a lot of technology and probably a lot information. On servers. And so it's not surprising that, that they would be a, an attack point and plus they're just a kind of a global company now. So there'd be a lot of ways to infiltrate them. And it kind of sounds like there's listening, just watching some of the news reports that it was via. Um, You know, some sort of email that triggered the, the system to go haywire, but when those events happen, what's what, what I'm hearing from the engineers from different companies, not, not just garment specific is that everything gets shut down. So they lose all the internet phones, internet. Connectivity, all access to drawings and everything that an engineer would need are basically taken offline. So it shuts down the company. And if there's any, if it is a true ransomware where they're asking for money, it has to be a big trade off, obviously. And then what, what seems to be happening at most of these places is a companies are calling the FBI. They're not playing. They bring in the federal investigators immediately. To one, try to help them figure out what they need to do next, but to. Stop it from happening to somebody else because this sort of nonsense has got to stop. ...

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? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP19 eHANG EVTOL First Flight; Boeing 737 Woes; Are the Big Four Airlines in Trouble? Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech - at Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightening protection easy. You are listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on Struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. 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 situations where we've seen a lot of public responses in, uh, sort of critical or controversial areas. You kind of get this wide range of responses. And then as the FAA, I don't know how they must lock a couple of people in a room to go through almost responses. It sounds terrible, right? Because you can write as much as you want for and as a response. So you could have 50 different comments in response. So the FAS go through those and sort them out and put them into groups and title respond to each one of them. So it takes a long time, right? Which is why they keep, keep saying like the seven 37 is not going to be flying at a couple other minor reasons, but it seems like the certification open public comment forum thing is going to shove it out to December of this year, before those airplanes get going again. Plus they have to qualify all the, all the pilots,

In this episode we dig into more layoffs in the aviation industry, including Spirit Aerosystems, who is slowing down their work for Boeing. The final Airbus A380s were delivered, marking the end of an era. In our aerospace engineering fails segment, we discuss United Flight 811 and how a cargo door lock nearly took down the entire plane...Lastly, we touched on Joby Aviation and others, discussing some new VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) technology. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP15 - Spirit Aerosystems Stops Work; Final Airbus A380; Crash of United Flight 811; Electric VTOL Tech https://youtu.be/RRJLYtCpRVk Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard, Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightening protection. All right on. So another week, another episode, how's everything out there in Massachusetts Allen Hall: Fine! Dan, you know, it's weird. We were seen to be coming out of the coronavirus thing just fine, but now we're in a drought. And I know last week we're talking about a, was it locus or Cicada? What's the crazy Dan: books that we had. Allen Hall: Yeah. So we've gone to from Corona to drought, insect infestations. So it's crazy right now, in a still. Mid June, you know, it's, it's supposed to be, it is nice outside. Dan: It'll start raining snakes probably any day. So raining Cobra, dogs, Allen Hall: any kind of small animal Dan: snakes will come out of the toilet. That's what all, that's what it'll be. Allen Hall: It's like that movie Snakes on a Plane, right? What's not Dan: a big, which was, which was funny. It was legitimately funny. Cause people like laughed at it because they thought. That it was ridiculous, but it knew it was one of those movies that it was satire. Like they knew it were that it was ridiculous. And I thought it was really funny. I really enjoyed it. I got a lot of, a lot of acclaim at the time. A lot of fanfare. Allen Hall: We finally, we finally hit bare season here. So we had bear in the yard this past week with some colleagues. So it's a mama bear and a couple of Cubs gotta be careful around that. Dan: Yeah. Allen Hall: Spring, spring in the mountains. Dan: Yeah, for sure. So in today's episode, in our first segment or in our new segment, we've got, about spirit, you know, they're one of the big, part suppliers for Boeing. So some news there, the last . you know, end of an era is, as on our list here, we're going to talk about some of the new developments and cabins and specifically seats. Obviously this is big time re Corona virus. we're also gonna talk a little bit about, United airlines flight eight 11. Which this is kind of in our learn from failure segment, which, obviously aviation has evolved a lot over the years and we're going to talk about just how cargo doors have changed, in part, because of that incident, which is really, really fascinating, I mean, tragic, but a really interesting story. And the investigation took some twists and turns. And then we're gonna talk a little bit about. Airbus's new drone copter and this potential flying car model. that's after the Israeli Cormorant, which is, I guess not, it's like a prototype vehicle, but it's actually flown. She hasn't had any passengers in it yet. So, so Allen what's, what's the deal with spirit spirit Allen Hall: is a big supplier to Boeing. It has been that way for a long time. They also supply parts to Airbus. And I think that you should have Gulf stream too, but there are big seven 37,

In episode 12 of the Struck Podcast we discussed the SpaceX rocket and its lightning issues, the AC-67 rocket crash from the 1980s, and the Apollo 12 and how lightning protection changed following the two strikes it took upon launch. Watch the video version of this podcast here. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Struck Podcast EP 12 Full Transcript - SpaceX Launch, The AC-67 Rocket Disaster & Apollo 12 [00:00:00] Dan: [00:00:00] You're listening to the struck podcast. I'm Dan Blewett [00:00:10] Allen Hall: [00:00:10] I'm Allen hall. [00:00:11] Dan: [00:00:11] And here on struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering and lightning protection. All right, Alan, we're back here for episode 12. What's going on [00:00:21] Allen Hall: [00:00:21] the dirty dozen of episodes. Here we go. [00:00:23] Dan: [00:00:23] Yup. Yup. And the next one's the Baker's dozen. [00:00:25] So we can just keep using this dozens theme for. Lisa another episode. So [00:00:30] Allen Hall: [00:00:30] Baker Baker's does this relate it to donuts somehow? So when you say Baker's does, and it always sticks, you think of food? [00:00:36] Dan: [00:00:36] Well, I think all of these, like extra things are just stupid because he ended up just getting charged for them. [00:00:41] Like you think they just it's always reflected in the price. Like I learned this when I was a kid, my dad's from Oklahoma and we'd be visiting, you know, my grandparents and we'd be driving around and you'd see this firework stands and it's like, You drive past one, it says, buy one, get six free. I'm like, Oh my God, what a deal? [00:00:59] We need to stop. And [00:01:00] then the next one's like, buy one, get eight free. And I'm like, this is even better. And it's like, buy one, get 10 free buy one, get 12 free. I'm like mom, like, and the, and my grandma's like, honey, they just, they just increase the price. So you buy one, but it's like 12 times more expensive than a normal what it would normally be. [00:01:17] I'm like, Oh, Well, that seems deceptive. And I was like, I don't know, 10 or something at the time, but that's what I feel like. That's how I feel about the Baker's dozen. It's like, you're not really giving me a 13th, like, come on, you're building it. You just you're charging a dollar 25 for a bagel and sub a dollar 20, like just a minute, just a minute. [00:01:35] But I have no, I also have no evidence to prove this. So maybe, maybe I'm wrong here. I don't know why [00:01:39] Allen Hall: [00:01:39] you don't think the chef's taken a loss on that one, huh? Or the Baker's taken a loss on the 13th? [00:01:45] Dan: [00:01:45] Well, well, I mean the cost of a bagel or, or a donut is probably only a nickel. If that it's 10 cents probably less. [00:01:53] Yeah. So maybe they are maybe I'm wrong. But anyway. So in today's episode, we're gonna talk a bunch about, uh, [00:02:00] lighting protection as it pertains to spacecraft and rockets, because that's where a lot of this stuff started. So obviously, uh, space X is a site they're launched late, was recently struck by lightning. [00:02:12] Their craft itself was not done in Texas. So we're going to cover that. And then, uh, obviously the Apollo 12 was one of the big factors that got all lightening protection, a lot of, a lot of steam because. That was a big deal. And so they were like, Disney's not happening again. And then obviously the, uh, the AC 67 rocket that was hit and then malfunctioned and had a sad ending was another tall tale for today's episode on space. [00:02:40] First of all, we should probably just talk for just 30 seconds cause we could probably get on a really big tangent. Space force. How do you feel about the space force? [00:02:49] Allen Hall: [00:02:49] Oh,

In Struck episode 11 we discussed propeller planes and what happens when lightning strikes. Propellers used to be made of wood, then aluminum and now carbon fiber, but leading edge erosion and protection is critical, so how do manufacturers plan for this? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Watch the YouTube video version here. Struck Podcast EP11 Transcript: Propeller Technology and Prop Plane Lightning Protection Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You're listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett.  Allen: I'm Allen hall  Dan: and here on Sruck we talk about everything aviation, aerospace, engineering, and lightning protection. Allen, how are you doing? Episode 11 we're really getting up there.  Allen: Yeah. Exciting. Dan:  We're 10% deep. 10% more than we had last week.  Allen: Oh, that's true.  Yeah. That's good. Good math right there.  It's ready to go for a philosophy major, right?  Dan: Yeah. Gonna be going to continue getting, getting lower and lower as we go. Well. Oh, that's true too. Right? It's a declining return on investment.  Right. So, yeah, this is rough. This is rough. So today's episode we're going to chat about, um, leading edges on, uh, on prop planes, uh, and some of just the electrical problems that can cause like noise issues and obviously like the lightening implications. Yeah. Um, cause there's obviously a lot of different types of props. There's different ways of combating that stuff. So that's kind of on our docket today. That's gonna probably. Be a pretty widespread conversation it sounds like. But first things first, what's your favorite airline? Oh, you have to pick one. Who do you go with?  Allen: American and in America  Dan: In America.  Allen: Southwest.  Dan: Southwest.  Allen: It isn't because I like them either. Uh, because I, I really. The thing about Southwest is so, well, it was so full. Every year, every flight I've been on with Southwest, and probably the last two or three years has been 100% full. Uh, but you got to give them some CRA, a little bit of credit that the. Flight staff is very amenable, helpful, upfront, cheery, and you do get on off the airplane pretty fast and they fly a lot of different places and it's pretty clean cut. So you can put some luggage on the airplane and they get charged a whole bunch of money. Yeah. Southwest,  Dan: Southwest, I do like their baggage system. I'll give them that. I had a couple of rough experiences, uh, like the last, within the last two years kind of soured me on it. But I do agree with everything you just said. It's nice when you're on like Delta or American, they'll have power outlets on the seats that someone doesn't have yet.  But Southwest has the free, and I don't know if other airlines do this. Maybe Delta does, but uh, Southwest has the free live TV and movies that are free and you can, you can buy wifi for about eight bucks, whatever it is. So that's, that's not bad. Yeah. It's  not bad.  No, it's not bad. It's just so full. Where Elisa was, it was so full. It's not full anymore.  No more. Yeah. In the land of coronavirus, that was the before time in the before time. They had full airplanes. Right after time. Well, I'm not so sure.  Allen: What do you think it's going to change? I don't think it's gonna change all that much.  Dan: I think probably I probably can't. The logistics there just won't make sense to fly half full airplanes.  Allen: No. No, it makes zero sense at all. And I'm kind kinda wondering, based on some of the Twitter traffic I see lately airplanes are pretty fall in some cases. Uh, you know,

In episode seven of Struck, we discuss Panasonic avionics' white paper about millennial travelers, and whether WiFi should be free on all flights. We also talk about ThinKom's satcom radome technology and how their antennas help make in-flight WiFi a viable solution for travelers. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript Dan: Welcome back. This is the Struck podcast,episode seven. I'm your cohost. Dan Blewett. I'm joined here remotely by lightning protection expert. And CEO of weather guard, lightening tech, Allen hall. Allen, how are you doing?  Allen: Great. Dan, how you been?  Dan: I'm doing well. Um, I feel like this has been like a little bit of an easier, slightly more focused week for me. I don't know why it's rained a lot of the week, but overall pretty good. How about you?  Allen: Uh, we've been getting in and out. You know, we're sitting at this new manufacturing facility, so we've been running around back and forth quite a bit. But, uh, you know, it's still pretty quiet. All the shops are still closed. All the restaurants are still closed, so there's really no place to go. Have you been over to the Walmarts in D.C lately? Has  Dan: To what? To get pepper sprayed? No, I have not. I have not. Um, and then we talked about that story, although it might've been cut out of this, out of the episode, but. Yeah. Yeah. What, what your Allen's alluding to for you listening as a, there was a story in DC that he sent me that a woman was getting onto the elevator at a Walmart, which, you know, in cities there's Walmarts with you on the second, third floor, they might occupy a number of vertical floors and have parking beneath them, or loft apartments above or below, whatever. And a woman was getting into the elevator and other other people were trying to get into the elevator to, you know, like as people do, and she's like, Oh no, you're not coming to my elevator. And she pepper sprayed. So another woman and the cops were called, and then like her, the statements from her were just unbelievable. She's like, Oh no, you're not going to get in my,  in my elevator gave me that Corona virus.  It was just like straight out of Jerry Springer and it was an amazing story. I showed up my family  Allen: and that hasn't spread has it? I mean, Oh, they nailed the target. Do you guys have Kmart? I guess Kmart is closed or what? Dan: I mean, Kmart does not exist in Washington D C um, I don't. I have Kmarts have been going out of business for a while. I think they still are a thing, but like kind of not really.  Allen: Just lost a harvest. Yeah. We just lost ours  Dan: North of here. I mean, DC is a pretty affluent little city, so Kmart, I don't know who's going to Kmart, but, but yeah. But the interesting piece of news on my end is I ordered my groceries for the first time ever the other day ordered Costco did. Yeah. Okay. It was glorious. It was glorious. Sy, my, my sister has been, I mean, rightfully so. My sister's, uh, she's due with her second child in two weeks, and so she earns the family like, Hey, it's a complicated situation because, um, she's afraid that her and her husband are gonna maybe contract something at the hospital right after she goes birth. So she doesn't want to come home with her new baby greet my parents. You know, everyone wants to see the baby, and then my parents get something from them because they've been in the hospital. So it's kind of like they've been asked, they've asked us to, Hey, can you guys all quarantine for two weeks before, um, the birth? And then we're really just probably not going to see them for the first two weeks after, so they can sort of quarantine and be their own little family unit in the house. Um, right when they get home with the new baby.

How do we eliminate flammable fuel vapor in transport aircraft fuel tanks? Equipment like the Parker fuel inerting system - OBIGGS - and Air Separation Modules fill the ullage space with inert nitrogen gas. The Pilatus PC12 was a game-changer. Is the PC24 business jet headed for the same level of success?Cirrus Aircraft introduced the airframe parachute system on their SR-20. With the new Vision Jet, Cirrus and Garmin take safety to the next level with the Safe Return System. Check out the Safe Return System in operation via YouTube - https://youtu.be/JvzPpOknjME Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! 6:20 Parker Aerospace's inerting systems 17:57 The Pilatus PC12 and PC24 23:58 Lightning and turboprop engines 25:49 Cirrus parachute and Safe Return system 33:13 Garmin makes awesome products Transcript: Struck EP6 Dan: Hello, welcome back. This is the Struck podcast, episode six. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett, and here on the Struck podcast we talk about everything, lightning protection, aviation and aerospace tech. And I am here joined remotely by lightning protection expert, Allen Hall. Allen, how are you? Allen:  Great. Dan, how are you doing? Dan: Doing well, so. A lot of new things going on this week. I got a new mic on the way, so ordered some new parts for my podcasting set up here. I got this huge, like dr octopus, um, like at home set up, which is pretty intense. Um, what's going on with you up there? Allen:  Uh, well, we've been through a couple of snowstorms over the last week. Uh, everybody is still quarantined for the most part. They canceled school for the rest of the year. Uh, how's everyone feel about that? Not happy, not happy at all. Uh, all the, the kids are just missing being with the kids and the teachers are trying to work, uh, classes through zoom and, or other video formats, and it's just not the same. And so the kids. Are really struggling with the lack of sort of one-on-one or a groups with the teacher interactions. I'm just trying to get homework done. The other thing that he announced, it's, it's all pass fail. So the kids don't have grades like they would normally, and my daughter's a junior so. This is sort of like the year you need grades to start applying to schools and no one showed her and the SATs have been shoved off and it's just, everything's in chaos right now. Um, so that's, that's, uh, an unusual twist cause I didn't think the sat would get shoved off like that, but it, it did, it got pushed off until then, until the fall.  And then the other thing that seems like it's happening is a lot of the colleges and universities. Or not worrying about sat scores. So they're just saying, apply with what you have, which is going to be, it's going to be an interesting curve that's just going to be on, uh, for the next couple of years to see how that all plays out. We're not going to know, obviously for several years to see what happens there, but, um, kids not going to class all the time and, and just know a couple of teachers in different parts of the country. And. They're having trouble with the kids showing up on the, on the video, uh, video links, like someone that just don't show up and what are you going to do? There's really, you can't force them to show up. Right. So if they're not going to show up, they're not going to show up. Yeah. It's unfortunate because the kids are really missing out on a good opportunity to learn. You know, if you're sitting at home in bounds, we'll be learning something. Yeah, we'll see. Well, they're probably Googling things, if that's any consolation. Tick tock, tick tock you tubing a, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or learning how to, I mean, there's so much weird stuff on Instagram, like interesting stuff. I watch. Little clips of manufacturing and woodworking and li...

In this episode of Struck we discuss some of the unique parts manufacturers and what they're doing in the aerospace industry. Kanfit--who makes unique composite and metal parts--can create in-house what it often takes multiple parts suppliers to make. We also discuss Niles expanded metal foils and how they protect aircraft; lastly, we discussed Hondajet's unique and game-changing robotic painting system and why it makes a big difference in lightning protection. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Check out the companies we discuss during this podcast: Kanfit - www.kanfit.com Niles - http://www.nilesexpandedmetals.com/lightning-strike-protection/ Hondajet - https://www.hondajet.com 5:48 Kanfit capabilities 9:58 The difficulties of entering the aerospace market 14:03 How Kanfit builds efficient parts with composite and metal technologies 16:10 Niles expanded metal foils 18:44 Copper and aluminum expanded metal foils on composite parts 21:48 Hondajet painting 23:55 Why Hondajet's robotic painting is genius 30:10 Problems with Boeing 787 paint adhesion on the wing Transcript EP5 High Tech Composite Parts, Hondajet Robotic Painting and Metal Foils 00:00:08 - 00:05:01 Welcome back this is episode five of the struck podcast. I'm your co-host. Dan Blewett and I'm joined here remotely by lightning protection expert. Allen Hall. Allen, How are you. Great Dan how you doing? I'm doing well here on the struck podcast. We talk about everything. Lightning aviation and just current news in the airspace field. So Allen what is going on today in aviation. What do you got any news for us? Well everything is not flying. That's the news today. So planes are just buses. So Airbus's are literal buses. Right there literally buses or their cargo. Airplanes are seeing a lot of conversions happening making passenger planes cargo planes. Which is the thing to do. FedEx is really busy. There's a think of New York Times article talking about how busy FedEx is and We're on pretty much every FedEx aircraft with our straight product and when you have seen them flying a lot because everybody's things off Amazon and checks is one way to do. That was until recently you know FedEx an Amazon had a parting of the ways there. But there's still a lot of things being mailed around Because you know you stuck at home. So there's a lot of cargo business going on in that at least keeping some portion of the airplanes flying which is beneficial. Yeah and in my apartment building here in DC. They've and God bless all the people that are doing a lot of these tasks like concierge desk and they go get your packages from them and they. They're twenty-four seven which is nice compared to some buildings but yeah they said like hey please come down and get your packages quick when they come because we have way more packages than even like the table Christmas season. Whoa yeah. I mean so when you're you know I'm a pretty good-sized building and when you consider yeah just the people are trying to order literally everything and not leave their house which is good in the pandemic but it's not good for the people who have to handle all these packages and right now. We have to come down. Sign for like you know. That's fine for me. I interact with one person one time. But they're interacting with every every every day. Yeah so all of us have just been obviously trying to abide by whatever rules. They said and give them their distance and take their packaging and be about our way. But you know there's a lot of people doing those jobs you know whether it's your postal worker. You're package delivery man or woman. You're in all these things grocery workers like there's a lot of essential jobs that are just you know. I appreciate everyone. Continue to do those.

In episode three, we discuss some of the industry standards in testing aircraft lightning protection, SAE documents 5414B, 5412B and 5416A, and much more. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: Dan: Welcome back. This is episode three of the Struck Podcast. I'm your co-host  Dan Blewett and I'm joined here by lightning protection and aviation expert Allen Hall. Allen how are you doing?  Allen: Great dan how are you?  Dan: I'm doing well. The quarantine is in full force. I'm not leaving my home except for a little bit of exercise and some very haphazard shopping. I guess but how are you guys holding up? Allen: Well everybody's home obviously. So the college is being done online and the local public school should be switching over to some sort of quasi online classroom hopefully next week. So the kids are gonna start some sort of school which would be good because they're definitely not going back until earliest is May 4th. So we're about a month away from that.  Dan: Yeah and I was listening to another podcast this morning and one of the co-hosts she said you know my kids go to expensive private schools and she said it's just it's just not going well with the online learning. She's really not been pleased. She said it's just a poor experience so far and disorganized and granted I mean it's not to point any fingers to anyone, this is a tough situation for teachers to grab all their stuff and suddenly go online, but you know I think it's really just growing pains but she was bringing that up. They were talking about whether college students will get refunded or anyone will get any kind of tuition reimbursement. She said you know like we understand the situation, but at the same time not only are they not getting in person teaching but they're also just not really getting a great experience in general.  Allen: Yeah the thing we noticed was the room and board obviously got waived for in this case my son goes to Union College and they're on a trimester system. So they were just about to start their last trimester and the room aboard has obviously been waived because there's nobody on campus. But the yeah curriculum part we're still paying for and I think at least at the college level it's probably a little bit better at because they've been doing things like that for a while. A lot of things are online there but in the public schools it doesn't tend to be that way. So they've got to change the way they deliver the curriculum and that that's a lot of work to do. You know when you're in front of a board talking in front of 20 odd kids that's one way. But if you're trying to give something audio, visual, presentable via zoom typically it's a much different format to present information. So I can see why schools will be struggling with that. And I know that's here what they've been doing is the teachers have been sending out essentially an email a day saying here are some things you can read or here are some activities you can do here's some research you can do just to keep everybody active. It's not required, no one's getting graded on it, but it seems like the vast majority I would say probably 80% plus of the local kids are actually doing it. And the parents seem to be overseeing a lot of that obviously. But you know at least there's some learning going on. We're not just sitting at home watching YouTube or whatever the kids are doing watching tick tock probably.  Dan: Yeah it's hard. I mean it everyone was just thrown for such a loop and there's gonna be growing pains you know. And teachers work so hard. It's just a lot of transition I'm sure for them. All their curriculum just thrown into chaos.  Allen: Right to change track right now. Well I'm curious to see how this is gonna work - if they're gonna try to bring all th...

In episode two, Allen discusses some of the unique lightning protection technology that's now found on aircraft, including new materials--such as woven wire carbon fiber--that can help protect from lightning strikes. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript Dan: Welcome back! This is episode two of the Struck Podcast. I am your co-host Dan Blewett. I'm here visited remotely by lightning protection expert and CEO of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, Allen Hall. Allen what's going on? Allen: Hey Dan, how's it going there in Washington DC? Are you guys getting some sunny weather down there finally? Dan: It was beautiful today. I'm going to go run later.  I try to run in straight lines on the sidewalk till I see a human, then take a sharp left into traffic to avoid them breathing on me or me breathing on them.   Allen: What's the etiquette rules there when you approach someone running the opposite way? Does everybody just go to their right? Do they do the opposite in the UK? How does that work? Dan: I subconsciously hold my breath. I've noticed myself doing it like I don't want to breathe your air in, don't breathe my air. Everyone keep your air to yourself. Also you can see the subtle movements of people starting to get out of your way. Sometimes it's not subtle and that's fine, no one's getting offended. I think people are friendlier. I think I'm  giving people a nod, people are making eye contact with me. We're all like “hey, thanks for staying six feet away”. We appreciate each other. There's honestly a vibe from that, which isn't surprising. I feel like most Americans and most people around the world right now know that we are in this together. We understand the rules. I'm going to stay away from you out of respect, and you do the same. There is that kind of feeling here in the city, which I think is kind of nice. There's a little bit of a neighborly feel to it, which is good. Allen: Well, you're kind of in an epicenter as we keep hearing on the news. Dan: We're a very diverse city, the capital of the United States. But we don't have any cases yet, which is good. It seems like it's only in the three hundreds. Allen: Well that's not bad for a city of that size quite honestly. New York City is really taking the brunt of it right now. The cases there are scary. Dan: DC--I don't know the population here but--it's not a big city. There's a huge metro area, like it's an epicenter. The traffic is disproportionately large to the population, but I think there's only maybe a 700,000 DC population. Allen: Officially in the district, is that what it is? It's not a very large area. Dan: It's a very walkable city. Kind of like a three mile radius, it's nothing like Chicago which was  my epicenter living in Illinois the last ten years. Chicago is very big, and of course New York is so much bigger than that. It's been interesting. Allen: Are people wearing masks down there? Have you seen anybody jogging with a mask? Or is it pretty much keeping your distance. Cause I've seen more  masks in the last three or four days than I've seen in a long time. Dan: What about you? You're up in the wilderness. It's beautiful up where you are in Williamstown, but what's your situation? Do you guys have a good amount of masks or a little bit? Allen: It's weird. We're so sparse out here that people that are running around are mostly without masks. When I saw one the other day I thought “wow that's unusual”. We went to the next town over, getting out of the house and driving somewhere to try and help everybody get through sanity, and people were wearing masks. And I thought well it's probably a smart move, particularly if you're in those vulnerable categories, to throw a mask on. And as we're testing we're finding out there's a lot more...

In episode one, lightning protection expert Allen Hall discusses advances in aircraft lightning protection throughout aviation history. We also dive into Boeing's recent trouble with the 737 Max and what this means for the aviation industry. Podcast Transcript Dan: Welcome this is the first episode of the Struck Podcast I'm your co-host Dan Blewett and I am joined here by lightning protection expert Allen Hall. Allen how are you? Allen: Hey Dan, how are you doing? Dan: Doing well, doing well So we are here both self isolating in separate cities. I'm here in Washington DC and you're in the on the border of Vermont over on the Massachusetts side.  So yeah how's everything going up there? Allen: It's snowing we're gonna get eight inches of snow today. It's one of those freak March storms. I guess is today the first day of spring? It's got to be close to it right? Dan: Yeah yeah Allen: But we're so far north it's still winter time until about mid April so we're sort of self isolating via snowstorm today Dan: Gotcha. So here on the struck podcast we're gonna talk about everything aviation lightning protection because Allen here is the CEO of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, which is a lightning protection company and you've been in this industry for over twenty plus years Allen: Yeah Dan: Lightning protection in both the aviation industry and on wind turbine so you've seen a lot of the evolution of this in the field. Allen: Oh yeah we've seen a lot of changes in my lifetime and it's one of those things that we've been doing some research on here in our company and kind of going back through some of the history and it's fascinating to see how much has changed in the last 50 years from airplanes falling out of the sky, big airplanes falling out of the sky, to where we are now, which it's a pretty rare event which is where it's way it should be right I mean we should be evolving over time getting smarter and learning you know what's right and what's wrong and we've made huge progress but it doesn't mean there's not a lot more to go and there is. Dan: Yeah and you know we think of all these different modes of transportation and we think of flying being this big scary thing because we're obviously huge you know so heavy bird up in the sky but yet they're incredibly safe and I think that's owed to all the engineers and the regulations and you know with even just the little things you have swapping out a new part for a plane maybe one that wears out like there's just a lot of steps you have to go to to just make sure the new part that goes in there is as good or better as the previous and you can't just throw anything on there there's no cobbling together an airplane like you could maybe a used car Allen: Right Dan: and that's really there's a lot of sense. Allen: Yeah just because the safety aspects involved and it's a combination of obviously the people who design airplanes getting smarter and having a lot of computational ability helps in that and then just the process has changed over time where we're much more focused on looking at safety and looking at probabilities of safety and in delving deep deep deep into systems and deep deep deep into aircraft structure and to test it and make sure that it's going to do what we think it's going to do as we go forward. So there's tons and tons and thousands and thousands and thousands of man-hours that go into making an airplane anymore and in you know roughly a pretty much any airplane program it's going to be several hundred million dollars to billions of dollars to get developed before it first even really gets out in the field. There's a lot of money, a lot of effort to make those airplane safe, thank goodness. Dan: Yeah and so for you as a lightning protection expert you know where does this all start? I know that one of the first recorded lightning strikes on aircraft was on a German Zeppelin back in 1915 and the thing just basically just got...