EP70 – Northrup Grumman Model 437 & Boeing 737 Max 10 Wheel Engineering

STRUCK: An Aerospace Engineering & Lightning Protection Show

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 ...