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The episode features an interview with Anders Forslund, CEO of Heart Aerospace, discussing the development of a hybrid-electric regional aircraft and related aviation news.

The CEO of Heart Aerospace describes the development of a hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft. In the news, a near miss at Boston Logan between a landing Delta Air Lines flight and a departing American Airlines flight, NASA’s Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability 2050 (AACES) program, Canada’s purchase of F-35A fighters and possibly Saab Gripens, and Canada’s look at early-warning-radar planes. Guest Anders Forslund is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heart Aerospace , formed to electrify short-haul regional aviation. Heart Aerospace is developing the ES-30, a hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft. Heart is currently in upstate New York, testing the X1 demonstrator aircraft, which the company says will be the largest electric aircraft ever to fly. The company is backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Ventures and Y Combinator, as well as operator/investors United Airlines and Air Canada. Anders explains Heart Aerospace’s mission to lower the cost of air travel and how their clean-sheet Part 25 airliner will achieve about a 40% reduction in overall operating costs. The ES-30 will be an…

People in this episode

Guest: Anders Forslund

Topics covered

• hybrid-electric aircraft
• regional aviation
• air travel costs
• aviation news
• environmental sustainability
• aircraft development

Keywords

• Heart Aerospace
• hybrid-electric aircraft
• regional commercial aircraft
• aviation news
• environmental sustainability
• air travel costs
• X1 demonstrator
• ES-30

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heart Aerospace, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, NASA, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Ventures, Y Combinator, United Airlines, Air Canada

Products: ES-30, X1

Places: Boston Logan, upstate New York, Plattsburgh International Airport

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