Emerging by emergency

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

28 Sep 23

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In a space full of clean sheet aircraft designs, it can be hard to see clearly past the drawings and 1:10 prototypes. Uncertainties over target…

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Train track to novel plane propulsion

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

20 Sep 23

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Revolutions are about bringing radically different ideas to the table and/or combining them in ways previously unseen.  Compared with today’s passenger aircraft, those in development…

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Supernalism: Hyundai’s AAM theory

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

30 Aug 23

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Access to the automotive supply chain will play a big role in the success of an eVTOL OEM. Frontrunners like Joby and Archer have tapped…

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How do VCs vet early stage startups?

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

23 Aug 23

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This month ZeroAvia announced a breakthrough development when it revealed successful initial tests of an oxygen compressor which forms an “integral part” of its hydrogen-electric propulsion system.…

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Picking the right tools for the job

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

4 Aug 23

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Aircraft design is ruled by the propulsion system on the airframe — you can tell a helicopter, piston or turbine aircraft without seeing it.  So…

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Hydrogen: The grey area of guaranteeing green

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

18 Jul 23

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Hydrogen comes in a rainbow of colours: green, grey, blue, brown, yellow, turquoise, white and even pink.  But only green hydrogen made by using clean…

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Finding the breakeven on batteries

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

12 Jul 23

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If you’ve ever tried to push an electric car you know how heavy they are. Today the best aircraft batteries you can get off the…

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Applying intelligence to autonomous flight

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

5 Jul 23

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“Instead of thinking ‘AI’ represents some looming black box magic, we focus on what we can do with it here and now,” says Dr. Yemaya…

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How to build self-flying cargo networks

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

8 Jun 23

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If the wizard Merlin was at the cutting-edge of medieval science, then Merlin is at a similar place in aviation today. The autonomous pilot developer…

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Where do you put the batteries in an electric aircraft?

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

17 May 23

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Few passengers are aware that an aircraft’s wings are home to the fuel tanks, CDO2, a UK-based novel battery sensor technology developer, thinks the wings…

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Zipline: What goes up, keeps raising

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

5 May 23

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Share prices, test flights, valuations, whatever goes up must come down right? For startups, in almost every case the rule sticks, but drone delivery unicorn,…

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Towing the line

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

27 Apr 23

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  Ask a battery supporter about hydrogen and they will say the energy density is too low. Ask a fan of hydrogen about batteries and…

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Stralis: Graduating Y Combinator

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

18 Apr 23

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An American and a Scotsman walk into an Australian aerospace startup … It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but, in fact, it…

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Algorithm anxiety: Building AI competency in aviation

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

11 Apr 23

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The beauty of artificial intelligence-based systems is that you don’t have to do much, if anything. The catch is, if not you’re doing anything, you’re…

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Where do eVTOLs sleep at night?

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

3 Apr 23

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Picture a busy vertiport. Passengers walk out to board electric vertical aircraft happy to be saving hours in travel time. Now imagine the chaos when…

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