Boeing is discussing selling off their Seattle HQ as the company ponders what the workplace looks like in the future. We discuss more lessons learned from the flight of the Barn Owl and the Airbus Albatross project, a new demonstrator with flapping wings. FedEx is testing drones in Memphis to help workers become more efficient, and Ampaire makes a long flight in their all-electric aircraft. Check out the video of FedEx's drones here and the Airbus Albatross here.

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Transcript EP32 - Will Boeing Sell Their Seattle HQ? Airbus Albatross Project; FedEx Tests Drones at the Airport & Ampaire Makes Important Flight

Welcome back to the Struck podcast, episode 32. And in today's episode, in our new segment, we're going to chat about this potential Jetpack person flying at 6,000 feet above a LA, which is seemingly unconfirmed and also terrifying. Uh, and also we're going to talk a little bit about Boeing, uh, potentially selling one of their HQs and considering some mobile.

Options. So as you know, as everyone is rethinking what office life looks like in our engineering segment, we are going to talk a lot about birds. There's an interesting study on bird flight with the barn owl, also the air, uh, the Airbus albatross, which has actually, uh, segmented wings, if that's the right term for it, but they sort of flap.

So really interesting demonstrators technology there. And then lastly, in our electric tech segment, we're going to chat about drones being used at the airport, which is a pretty cool idea. And then the Ampaire. So their EEL, uh, aircraft has made some pretty impressive, uh, long haul flights. Well, maybe not a long haul, but some pretty impressive distance flights recently, uh, as in what they call the most, maybe commercially relevant, uh, electric aircraft at the moment.

So. Allen, let's start with what is the deal with this? A jet pack. Yeah, I don't know. Isn't it crazy that we've had now two sightings from airplanes from multiple aircraft coming into lax, where they see what looks or appears to be a guy on it and a Jetpack cause the, the, the, the feedback to the control towers and the ground crews are.

It looks like a guy in a jet pack. So in a pilot's eyes, you know, think about pilots is they usually have pretty good eyes. That's one of the criteria to fly an airplane. So, uh, I would say that they're probably telling you the truth that they actually seen this guy on a jet pack. Now, uh, the, uh, in this, uh, mobile phone dominated world where we're taking video of.

All kinds of things. It's weird that nobody has posted any video, or I haven't seen any video on TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat. And you know, there's just no video of this thing occurring. And it seems like if it's, if it's some sort of prank, there'll be a ton of video online about it that, uh, would get picked up somewhere.

But we don't have that either. So there's a lot of curiosity about it because. If it ever got to a situation where it ran into an airplane, uh, that result would not be good. And if it is a real person, now there's been conjecture that it's a dummy attached to a jet pack or some sort of, um, I've even heard some discussion about being a helium filled thing that just floats around.

Maybe it is maybe it isn't who knows, but it just don't. Want to be playing around airports. That's one of the sort of basic fundamental rules around airports is don't put things in the air where an airplane can run into them because you're risking a lot of people's lives for some nonsense that you want to go pull off.

Uh, but do you think it's a real jet pack? Dan D well, you're reading this article from NBC news. Uh, so David May, may man is the CEO of Jetpack Aviation in LA. And he said,