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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

AvTalk Episode 185: Wheel’s Away!

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of AvTalk, a Boeing Dreamlifter loses a wheel, the fate of the 737-7 and -10 MAX remains firmly on the ground, and we welcome back Airline Weekly editor Edward Russell to fill us in on Delta and Joby’s new agreement for eVTOL operations. Boeing Dreamlifter loses a wheel On departure from Taranto, […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 185 of Avcock. I am Ian Petchenic here with not just as always.

0:18.3

Oh, that's my cue. Jason Rubinowitz and here live on location in the basement of Ned Russell's house. Say

0:26.8

hi Ned. Hey guys how you doing? Best intro ever I'm not even cutting it so

0:31.8

welcome folks welcome to the

0:33.2

podcast. This is how we start today. Yeah, Jason and Ned are together in

0:37.8

Washington DC. So Ned is joining us for the entire show. So either welcome Ned or I'm so sorry Ned. We'll see how this goes by the end.

0:47.3

Ned Russell for those that don't know is a good friend of the show and is also incidentally I guess the editor of Skifts Airline Weekly. So Ned,

0:57.4

thanks so much for a hosting Jason and B joining the show this week.

1:01.6

It's always a pleasure but we can't forget our fourth host which is my dog Heathrow who is now

1:06.1

Yes, a few feet away. Welcome Heathrow to the program. We'll see

1:10.4

She finally simmered down and is taking a nap just long enough for us to do this podcast.

1:14.1

So let's knock this out.

1:15.1

Excellent.

1:16.1

Let's get it in.

1:16.6

So we start the show this week with a rather...

1:20.1

More dreamlifter shenanigans.

1:22.1

Yeah, I guess the best way to describe it is

1:25.0

plane goes up, wheel goes down, a wheel on one of the mainland of your bogeyes

1:28.6

of one of the Dreamlifters departing Taunto in Italy, bound for Charleston, came off. It was recorded on video as so many things are these days. So A, we'll put a link to that in the show notes and B the wheel fell bounced and landed on the

1:46.4

airport property somewhere and was recovered the aircraft continued along because hey what's a wheel when you've got 18 I mean 18 minus 1 is 17 still seems like a good enough number to fly with and land the plane landed in Charleston, no problem. Landed just fine. And I just assume that a few folks are going to have some difficult conversations with their managers.

2:11.0

Not only the wheel depart the bogey and the aircraft, but was it also smoking that I see in the video or what was going on than just the wheel departed?

2:21.7

Yeah, so from the video what it looks to me like happened there was smoke

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