The Aerial Mobility Podcast, by TransportUP: Recent Episodes
Naish Gaubatz
The Latest News for Aerial Mobility. TransportUP brings your interviews of leading entrepreneurs in the flying car, air taxi, and eVTOL industry, as well as market analysis and tech talks.
In this episode, TransportUP welcomes Ben Marchionna, Director of Technology & Innovation at Electra.aero. Electra.aero is developing an eSTOL (electric short take-off and landing aircraft) that utilizes blown lift technology to sustainably provide solutions for regional cargo and passenger transportation.
In this episode, Marchionna discusses the technology behind the aircraft's concept, the inspiration and journey to found the company, and its vision for the future of regional air transportation.
TransportUP welcomes Bruno Mombrinie, CEO and Founder of Metro Hop. In this episode, Bruno describes the process and design thinking behind his company's eSTOL - an electric short take-off and landing aircraft. Notably, the aircraft will be able to take off and land on urban rooftops, and carry the equivalent of two standard truckloads of cargo.
Pegasus Universal Aerospace is developing the 'Vertical Business Jet', which uses four massive ducted fans embedded in the wings for vertical take-off. In this ‘Quick Take’ 10-minute episode, Pegasus Founder Dr Reza Mia tells us about his aircraft’s development process, challenges, and outlook for the future.
TransportUP Welcomes Harrison Wolf, Project Lead of Aerospace and Drones at the World Economic Forum. In this episode, Harrison walks us through the key principles of aerial mobility safety and airspace regulations, and outlines how aerial vehicles may soon become a part of our everyday lives.
Find the link to Harrison's report, 'The Principles of the Urban Sky' below:
http://bit.ly/Principles-of-the-urban-sky
TransportUP interviews Rafi Yoeli, CEO of Israel-based Urban Aeronautics. Urban Aeronautics is developing a hydrogen-powered, vertical lift aircraft designed for use as an air taxi, air ambulance, and more.
Vertical Aerospace is a leader in eVTOL and air taxi technology in the U.K. Since 2017 and before, Vertical has worked tirelessly to create an aircraft that can bring the convenience and effectiveness of aviation to more people, in an environmentally safe way. Most notably, Vertical recently announced the ‘Seraph’ eVTOL, which broke the record for payload capacity carried by a vertical electric aircraft. In this episode, Michael discusses Vertical’s mission, its design philosophies, and its hopes for the future of aviation in the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Founded in June of 2020 by five former members of the Airbus Vahana project, Airflow is the developer of a short take-off and landing electric aircraft that will utilize distributed electric propulsion to complete essential middle-mile cargo missions within the aerial mobility industry. In this episode, Marc tells us about Airflow’s mission and purpose, the story of its founding, and the unique ideas behind its' technology."
Transport UP hosts Kaydon Stanzione, the founder of Jaunt Air Mobility. Jaunt is one of the newer aerial mobility companies, and is a partner to Uber Elevate. Jaunt's aircraft features a unique slowed lift-rotor design, and is built for commercial air taxi use in the near future. In this episode, Kaydon explains how Jaunt came to be, how its single rotor design is different than existing distributed propulsion methods, and what he sees for the future of air taxis.
TransportUP hosts Rob Wiesenthal, co-founder and CEO of BLADE UAM, on The Aerial Mobility Podcast, in Episode 12.
BLADE UAM is an on-demand aerial transportation company that is already connecting people in destinations across the US and the globe. Founder Rob Wiesenthal talks with TransportUP about BLADE's current urban aerial mobility operations, customer experience, and how BLADE's current operations firm the company's foundation of readiness for the next generation of urban transport aircraft.
Learn more about BLADE UAM here.
Episode 11 of The Aerial Mobility Podcast features Matt Pearson, Co-Founder of Alauda Racing. TransportUP's Editor, Naish Gaubatz, talks with Matt about his plan to create a Formula 1 style Flying Car Grand Prix, how the GP will advance eVTOL technology, and how his experience in running a space startup has helped guide Alauda Racing's path to success thus far.
Learn more about Alauda Racing here.
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In Episode 10 of The Aerial Mobility Podcast, we welcome Bob Labelle, CEO of XTI. XTI is developing the XTI tri-fan, a hybrid electric vertical take off and landing aircraft that can seat up to six people and has a range of over 1000 nautical miles. Bob covers topics such as the design of the aircraft and the company's market strategy.
To learn more about XTI Aircraft, visit their website here.
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Learn more about Uber Elevate, Uber Copter, and the full slate of aerial mobility plans that Uber is working to enact in the coming years from Head of Product for Aviation, Nikhil Goel.
In this episode of The Aerial Mobility Podcast, we learn about the rate of progress of UAM, discuss the advantages of early deployment of mobility technologies on helicopters, and Uber's plans for initial commercial implementation of eVTOL services.
Learn more about Uber's aerial mobility initiatives here.
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Episode 8 of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP, features Andrew Tierney, Partner at IMP Drones. Andrew is an avid outdoorsmen and mountaineer, drone pilot, and commercial drone operator, as well as an entrepreneur and ex-consultant.
As referenced in the Episode, if you're in Seattle, WA on June 1st, you're invited to meet Andrew and myself at Drone Day. More information on this exciting event is here, and the Pacific Science Center, host of the event, has a podcast on the topic as well.
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As always, have a great day - let's go UP!
Join Felipe Varon, CEO of Varon Vehicles, for Episode 7 of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP as he talks about Varon Vehicle's urban aircraft - the Varon Vehicles V200. We talk about the design, certification, and testing process for Varon Vehicles, and also dive into Felipe's motivation for starting the company.
Learn more about Varon Vehicles at VaronVehicles.com, and be sure to subscribe to TransportUP's newsletters at transportup.com to receive updates on urban aviation!
Join Ben Marcus, Co-Founder and CEO of AirMap, for Episode 6 of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP as he talks about the world's leading low-altitude airspace management platform.
Millions of drones and hundreds of commercial operators use AirMap to safely and efficiently integrate with existing airspace control systems worldwide. Before co-founding AirMap, Ben was the co-founder and CEO of jetAVIVA, the world’s leading broker of business jets. Ben is an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with more than 4,500 hours of flight experience in more than 100 types of airplanes, seaplanes, gliders, and helicopters.
Learn more about AirMap at AirMap.com, and be sure to subscribe to TransportUP's newsletters here to receive updates on urban aviation!
Join Denis Dancanet and Andrei Evulet, CEO and CTO of Jetoptera, for Episode 5 of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP. Jetoptera is an urban aviation company based in Edmonds, Washington working to advance hybrid and eVTOL designs utilizing their fluidic propulsion technology.
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You can learn more about Jetoptera and view the videos that were referenced in the podcast at Jetoptera.com.
Jean Botti is the CEO of VoltAero, a company based in France that's designing a hybrid-electric general aviation aircraft. In this episode of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP, Jean overviews the design of their Cassio 1 testbed aircraft and discusses the future iterations of VoltAero aircraft.
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You can learn more about VoltAero on their website at Voltaero.aero.
Rohit Goyal is the Urban Air Mobility Lead at Booz Allen Hamilton. In this episode of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP, he shares insight on the progress of the industry, and even how the weather will effect the price of air taxi tickets.
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You can learn more about Booz Allen Hamilton's Urban Air Mobility initiative at boozallen.com.
Assen Aeronautics is a three year old company that is merging the motorbike and drone industry. In this episode of The eVTOL Podcast, by TransportUP, we speak with the founder of Assen Aeronautics, Assen Andonov, to learn more about his company.
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You can learn more about Assen Aero at assen.aero.
Hoversurf's public awareness exploded when they demonstrated their hoverbike, a motorcycle for the sky. We speak with Hoversurf's CTO Joseph Segura to learn more about the company, their work on the hoverbike, their new eVTOL, and more.
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You can learn more about Hoversurf at hoversurf.com.