Welcome back to The Vertical Space! Today we're joined by Dan Magy, founder and CEO of Firestorm, a California-based company developing low-cost and modular military UAS systems. Dan's entrepreneurial history includes the founding of Citadel in

#65 Andrew Coleman: Unpacking the Value of Data in Aviation

17 days ago 1h 6m

Welcome to another episode of The Vertical Space where we sit down with Andrew Coleman, leader of GE Aerospace's software business. In this conversation, we explore the critical intersection of traditional aviation and advanced air mobility, de

#64 Lorne Cass: Aviation Operations; Today's Lessons for Tomorrow's Operators

Apr 8th, 2024 1h 22m

Welcome to The Vertical Space podcast and a discussion with Lorne Cass, an aviation executive who most recently served as Vice President of American Airlines' Integrated Operations Center, and is the current RTCA Chair. Lorne knows where aviati

#63 Uma Subramanian, Surya Ventures: Commercial air travel innovation under attack

Mar 25th, 2024 58m 55s

In today's episode, we sit down with Uma Subramanian, a seasoned aviation expert with a wealth of experience in the industry.Having known Uma for many years, we've been really eager to bring her insights to our audience. From her time as an eng

#62 Andrew Hately, Eurocontrol: U-Space, UTM, and the integrated airspace

Mar 11th, 2024 1h 26m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space and a conversation with Andrew Hately - a senior researcher in the Drone unit at the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub in France - about U-Space, UTM, and ATM. Andrew emphasizes the necessity of radical steps to inte

#61 Eric Leopold, Threedot (ex-IATA): Air transport in the digital age

Feb 27th, 2024 1h 7m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space for a conversation with Eric Leopold, a long time veteran of IATA, the International Air Transport Association. We start the conversation talking about the state of the airline industry and its current priorit

#60 Eric Watson, Zipline: Drone delivery and the Zipline experience

Feb 12th, 2024 1h 17m

Welcome to our conversation with Eric Watson from Zipline. You can’t help but be impressed with the inspiring and important work that Zipline has done with their partners in Africa – with medical and healthcare outcomes that are remarkable. So,

#59 John Langford, Electra.aero: Bringing eSTOL to Market

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 14m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space and a terrific conversation with John Langford, CEO of Electra.aero. We talked about the key drivers for advanced air mobility, and how factors such as market acceptance, use case, certification, tech readines

#58 Kara Kramer, AeroVironment: A deep dive into the Replicator initiative and future of military UAS

Jan 16th, 2024 1h 12m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space and our conversation with Kara Kramer, Director of Business Development at AeroVironment. This is a discussion around the evolving role of UAS in warfare, including in Ukraine, the critical role of the supply

#57 Valerie Manning, Overair: Reality Check On Commercializing eVTOLs

Jan 3rd, 2024 1h 12m

Welcome to our conversation with Dr. Valerie Manning, Chief Commercial Officer of Overair. This is a discussion around the value of advanced air mobility, of eVTOLs and Overair's unique value to meet these requirements. We've had this discussio

#56 Robert Rose, Reliable Robotics: Exploring the future of autonomy in aviation

Dec 18th, 2023 1h 25m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space and our conversation with Robert Rose, co-founder and CEO of Reliable Robotics. This is a conversation about autonomy. We discussed the arc of automation and, what evolved in the conversation, the arc of safe

#55 Yemaya Bordain, Daedalean: certifying autonomy, next-gen avionics, and multi-core processors

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 19m

Check out an in-depth and fast-moving discussion of certifying autonomy, next-gen avionics, and multi-core processors with Dr. Yemaya Bordain, President of the Americas for Daedalean.Right out of the gate Yemaya challenges much of today’s estab

#54 Stuart Ginn, WakeMed: A physician's perspective on medical drone delivery

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 11m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space for a deep dive into the medical delivery use case, or I should say another deep dive into this interesting topic. We’ve had guests in the past – notably Justin Steinke from Spright – where we talked about the

#53 Declan Ryan, Irelandia: The founding of Ryanair, low-cost airlines, lessons for AAM

Nov 2nd, 2023 1h 7m

Welcome back to The Vertical Space for a discussion with Declan Ryan, one of the co-founders of Ryanair and a serial builder of low-cost airlines. With commercial drone operations starting to gain momentum and the contours of future eVTOL opera

#52 Paul Rinaldi, Air Traffic Management: Today's Realities and Tomorrow's Opportunities

Oct 24th, 2023 1h 12m

Check out a terrific discussion with Paul Rinaldi, President of Rinaldi Consultants and served as President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). Paul is the voice of today’s reality and tomorrow’s opportunities. In his c

#51 Carl Dietrich, Jump Aero: MOSAIC - a transformational opportunity

Oct 10th, 2023 1h 23m

An in-depth conversation with Carl Dietrich, Founder/CEO/CTO of Jump Aero – as he explains everything you want to know about Jump Aero as well as MOSAIC, the proposed Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification rule – what Carl conside

#50 Christiaan Hen, Assaia: AI and aviation's "pit stops"

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 4m

In this episode we talk about something that has great relevance to traditional aviation, and that will become increasingly important to drone and other AAM concepts as their operations increase in scale and complexity – which is utilization of

#49 Pete Bunce, GAMA: general aviation's perspective on AAM

Sep 12th, 2023 1h 20m

Blunt converation with Pete Bunce, President & CEO of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Pete combines a deep understanding of established aviation as well as advanced air mobility. He introduces competence, regulatory under

#48 Reflections at the intersection of technology and flight

Aug 29th, 2023 1h 3m

Today will be a different kind of conversation. We, the hosts of The Vertical Space, provide reflections on the intersection of tech and flight that were the center point of our talk at Honeywell’s 2nd Annual Advanced Air Mobility Summit. We fi

#47 David Stepanek, Bristow: AAM customer perspective

Aug 14th, 2023 1h 19m

Today's talk is with David Stepanek – the Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer of Bristow.So where we talk often talk to those building vehicles in AAM – here we have an industry leader who is committed to the opportunities

#46 Dan Elwell: FAA Reauthorization; "1,500 Hour Rule"; the balance between safety and innovation

Jul 31st, 2023 1h 7m

This episode marks a first for our podcast – it’s the first time that we recorded an episode in person, and we did it during the Honeywell Aerospace Second Annual Advanced Air Mobility Summit in Washington DC, where the three of us also shared

#45 Damon Vander Lind, extending electric range with zero emissions

Jul 19th, 2023 1h 7m

Welcome to our conversation with Damon Vander Lind, co-founder and CEO of Magpie Aviation, a company enabling long-range flights with zero emissions. Damon and Magpie are offering a solution that is fresh and new – a lot of you will be both fas

#44 Thomas Neubauer: cellular connectivity as an enabler of BVLOS operations

Jul 5th, 2023 1h 15m

Welcome to our conversation with Thomas Neubauer, Co-founder and CEO of Dimetor. We discuss connectivity using cellular networks and the intersection of cellular networks and aviation. Thomas discusses the requirement of having a pilot in comma

#43 Venkat Viswanathan: batteries and electric aviation

Jun 20th, 2023 1h 8m

Today we revisit the topic of batteries with Venkat Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. As someone who relatively recently started his journey in electric aviation, Venkat is massively ins

#42 Billy Thalheimer, Regent and coastal transportation

Jun 6th, 2023 1h 25m

Today we introduce the maritime world to AAM - with a conversation with Billy Thalheimer, CEO and Co-Founder of Regent. We’ve been hearing such positive news about Regent – as I’m sure you’ve heard as well. But what makes Regent so darn attrac