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In this episode we welcome co-founder and CEO Eloa Guillotin and chief engineer Luiz Oliveira from Beyond Aero. 

Beyond is a Toulouse, France-based aircraft developer building the BYA-1 — a hydrogen-electric business aircraft targeted at sustainable business aviation with routes like Paris–Nice and Paris–Geneva.

Guillotin and Oliveira share how the story behind the company's founding during the pandemic, why hydrogen fuel cells are key to decarbonising flight and how a modular architecture using off-the-shelf components eases certification under EASA's CS23 standards.

They also emphasise how designing the aircraft from scratch enables efficiency, safety and performance. And much more besides.

In this episode Eric Allison, head of product at Joby Aviation brings us up to speed with where the California-based eVTOL developer is at today.

He discusses partnerships with airlines and cities including Virgin Airlines and Dubai. Allison emphasises the importance of sustainability, cost-effectiveness and public acceptance to scaling operations. 

Additionally, he touches on timelines for commercial operations, potential use cases beyond urban air mobility and the evolving competitive landscape. 

Challenges such as battery technology, certification hurdles and airspace management amongst other topics also come up in conversation.

In this episode we welcome Anthony Mc Loughlin, founder and CEO of Better Futures, to the podcast.

Mc Loughlin's firm is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for engineers . The company has identified, among others, a market niche in the burgeoning electric aviation sector and offers free demos via its website to enable engineers to explore the benefits of using an AI assistant in their day-to-day work.

Our conversation covers how Mc Loughlin's career inspired the vision for the company, the various branches of AI Better Futures is utilising to build its products and how Mc Loughlin hopes engineering and manufacturing will improve due to the benefits AI can bring.

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In this episode we welcome back Ronnie Fahy, CEO of Australian aerial intelligence firm Xplorate. 

Fresh off the back of gaining approval to inspect a full pipeline (550km) entirely beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in Queensland, Fahy tells us how the team got there and what it means to do so. 

We also look ahead at what's next for Xplorate from diversifying into new industries to gaining further approvals in Australia. 

In this episode we welcome Paul Briggs, Of Counsel at London-based law firm Bird & Bird. 

Paul has nearly four decades of experience in aviation law, including 17 years of being Joint Head of the International Aviation & Aerospace Sector Group at Bird & Bird. 

Now leading the firm’s efforts in sustainability, covering everything from SAF to eVTOLs, there are few better placed to discuss the commercial and legal issues presented by the latest revolution in aviation.

Paul also hosts his own podcast entitled "Bird & Bird’s Aviation, Aerospace & Defence Pioneers Podcast: Sustainability" featuring business leaders from across the world of sustainable aviation. 

In this episode we welcome Benjamin Zeitoun, partner at Starburst Ventures alongside Matteo Peraldo, partner at Alix Partners and Florent Francois, CEO and founder of C-981. 

Today's commercial aviation supply chain sees big players relying on an intricate network of small and medium-sized suppliers. It has in recent times proved resilient, but this episode's guests think time is running out for the current structure. 

The industry is at a crossroads where supplier's must choose to either digitise and adopt new processes and technology or not. Not doing so could well result in consolidation or failure. 

This episode discusses the state of the supply chain today, new technology in development and the investment driving it. 

In this episode we welcome on our first all-electric aircraft OEM and our first eVTOL developer, BETA Technologies. 

BETA is a Vermont-based company developing two aircraft — an eVTOL it calls Alia or A250 and a conventional takeoff variant dubbed CX300 — and supporting electric charging infrastructure. 

To date the firm has raised over $1bn on its journey to commercialisation and made significant progress with highlights including a piloted transition flight in its eVTOL prototype earlier this year. 

Joining us from BETA is chief operating officer Blain Newton.

In this episode we welcome Kolin Schunck, senior manager of Strategic Innovation & Intelligence at Lufthansa’s Innovation Hub. There he focuses on all things sustainable aviation including sustainable aviation fuel, hydrogen and electric aviation and advanced air mobility. 

Lufthansa's Innovation Hub this week announced its Startup Gate Program (see link below), if you are a startup feel free to apply to the programme below. 

The hub also published the latest edition in its AAM Radar Series today entitled Scalability (see link below also).

• Lufthansa Group & Lufthansa Innovation Hub Startup Gate Program
• The AAM Radar Series
• The AAM Radar Series x Scalability
• Newsletter Sign-Up Page

In this episode we welcome on Christian Grim and Jesper Vind from Bosch Campus in Germany. Christian is General Manager of Bosch General Aviation Technology and Jesper works on the business development management side.

Located in in the German town of Holzkirchen near Munich, Bosch Campus includes about 25,000sqm of laboratory and office building space for its development engineers and partners. 

Bosch said the goal was to create a place where people and their work "take centre stage". The campus recently welcomed its first external partner Munich-based electric aircraft startup Vaeridion which has plans to commence battery R&D at the site.  

In this episode we speak to Edison Yu, lead on research coverage of Space & Aerial Mobility at Deutsche Bank. There he focuses on what is known as the New Space economy and the advent of eVTOL/UAM. With respect to advanced air mobility, Yu closely follows the progress of all the listed eVTOL OEMs. 

In this episode we speak to Scott Cutshall president of Real Estate and Sustainability at Clay Lacy Aviation. There he manages and develops the company’s real estate and infrastructure portfolio while leading the organisation’s sustainability, community engagement, governmental affairs and workforce development divisions. 

Cutshall serves on a number industry environmental and sustainability committees and is an active member of industry associations. Roles include the National Air Transportation Association’s (NATA) Environmental Committee, National Business Aviation Association Environmental Sub-Committee and the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) General Aviation Committee. 

In this episode we speak to Chris Rocheleau the chief operating officer of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) about the role the organisation and the wider industry is playing in making advanced air mobility (AAM) a reality.

Rocheleau spent over 20 years in various roles with the FAA, including Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety where he assisted in leading the organisation responsible for setting safety standards and overseeing all aspects of the aviation industry including AAM and uncrewed aircraft systems.

In this episode we have none other than Gregory Davis, President of Raisbeck Engineering.

A licensed commercial pilot and accomplished engineer, Davis has over 15 years of experience in leadership roles within aviation. 

His current post at Seattle-based Raisbeck is with a company that specialises in providing aerodynamically designed enhancements to aircraft – working with OEMs such as Boeing and Bombardier. 

But as well as engineering incremental improvement, something aviation has become accustomed to, Davis has also immersed himself in the other end of the spectrum, namely the electric aircraft startup world, formerly heading up Eviation. 

In this episode we speak to Mario Asselin CEO and co-founder of The AirCraft Company, a Kansas-based startup developing a family of hybrid-electric regional aircraft. Co-founding the company alongside his wife Sylvie St-Georges, the pair have 65 years of combined experience in aircraft design including the Bombardier Global 7500 and the Global 8000. 

Accessibility is also a key piece of Asselin's vision for his aircraft family, the first member of which will be the SY30J Pangea forecast to enter service in 2029. Each aircraft will be wheelchair accessible, feature a disability friendly WC and have ample seat space to accommodate all.

In this episode we speak to Ronnie Fahy, CEO of Xplorate, an Australia-based aerial intelligence company that combines Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) with machine-learning to enable access to unprecedented data and insights from large infrastructure to terrain and, even, search and rescue. 

Xplorate has a growing list of major oil and gas and governmental clients and a number of world-first approvals for BVLOS operations, including a first regulatory authorisation to inspect a pipeline on a commercial basis in Australia.

In this episode we speak to Todd Graetz co-founder of Aerolane, a US-based startup which is endeavouring to expand the availability of air freight at the same cost as traditional trucking. How? Through an innovative aerial towing system that combines tried and tested technology with cutting-edge advancements. 

In this episode we speak to Sergio Cecutta, founder and partner at SMG Consulting, a boutique management consulting firm that amongst many other things provides data and modelling of the advanced air mobility (AAM) industry.  

Listen to find out more about how the SMG team create those models and how the insight gained helps to shape and inform Sergio's view of this burgeoning industry. 

For our first episode we are joined by the managing partners of mobility investment firm DiamondStream Partners, Brian Flynn, David Spurlock and Dean Donovan.

In this episode we welcome Mark Moore, founder and CEO of Whisper Aero. 

A renowned figure in the world of advanced air mobility, Moore is someone who has been there throughout it all. After working at NASA for three decades he then moved on to Uber, before heading up his own company developing ultra quiet electric thrusters at multiple scales. 

Some argue Moore is a controversial contributor to the advanced air mobility conversation, others will tell you his input is invaluable. 

We discuss why Moore believes it important to remain in dialogue and the responsibility he feels toward ensuring the continued growth of electric aviation as a whole. We also touch on the motivations behind founding Whisper Aero and where he sees the industry evolving in the future. Plus much more.

In our latest episode we are joined by Dr Mohamed Attia, co-founder and CEO of NEX Aero, to discuss the Berlin-based company's work in developing hybrid-electric hydrogen fuel cell-powered VTOL drones for long-range cargo delivery. 

An aeronautical engineer, formerly of Airbus and Rolls-Royce, Attia believes his background shaped his approach to innovation in aviation. 

NEX Aero focuses on addressing logistical challenges in remote regions by providing cost-effective and sustainable alternatives to helicopters. Attia emphasises the importance of market-driven design to ensure aircraft offer economic advantages over what exists today.

We also cover why Attia believes hydrogen is better than batteries for long-range aviation, despite infrastructure challenges.

In this episode we welcome Embraer-X president and CEO Daniel Moczydlower to the podcast. 

A chemical engineer from Brazil, prior to Embraer Moczydlower was CEO of Chemtech, a Siemens company, overseeing the transition from startup to multinational corporate.

He has spent 12 years with Embraer, the past four at the helm of Embraer's disruptive innovation subsidiary which is responsible for the launch of eVTOL developer Eve Air Mobility. 

The conversation takes a journey through Moczydlower's career and how his experiences have allowed him to bridge the gap between the white hot innovation of startups and legacy corporates. As well as his view of the AAM market today and Eve's place within it. 

Happy new year and welcome back to the Revolution.Aero Podcast. For our first episode of 2025, we are joined by an expert in forecasting advanced air mobility. 

A principal at Renaissance Strategic Advisors, Jay Carmel has more than fifteen years of experience providing strategy development and M&A advisory services. Today he primarily covers aircraft OEM equipment suppliers, aftermarket service companies, start-ups and investors who are active in the commercial aerospace industry with a focus on disruptive innovation.

In this episode we welcome Dan Dalton, head of Global Partnerships at autonomous eVTOL developer Wisk. 

The Boeing-owned company is arguably leading the charge across efforts to introduce autonomous commercial airborne passenger services globally with a particular focus currently on initial launch markets in the US and Australia. 

We discuss why Wisk decided to take the approach it has, the risks involved and recent achievements at the company.

In this episode of the Revolution.Aero Podcast we are joined by Jamie Bullen, a senior consultant from Montfort Communications based in London. 

An experienced financial journalist and editor within the property, finance and aviation press, with former employers including Euromoney and Flight Global, Jamie is perfectly placed to give behind-the-scenes insight into what makes a startup do and say as it does. 

Our discussion covers the hype surrounding AAM, the impact of delayed timelines, what makes a good marketing strategy, how to you keep investors attracted to your vision and much more.

In this episode we are joined by Bristow’s chief transformation officer Dave Stepanek. A helicopter guy through and through, who previously served as Bristow’s chief operating officer, Dave has been charged with overseeing the organisation’s strategic diversification into new markets such as advanced air mobility, electric aircraft and unmanned cargo delivery.

Our discussion centres around Bristow's view of AAM and electrification. What will come first, what are the risk associated with operating new aircraft and how Bristow is supporting new aircraft OEMs with their respective programmes.

You can also download Dave's white paper A Philosophical Guide to Early Operations published earlier this year here.