Aircraft
topic on 8 shows · 12 statements across 10 episodes
More or Less 
Another Podcast 
Cheeky Pint 
American Optimist 
No Priors 
Sourcery 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In
12 statements about Aircraft, every show
Slotowicz: Starlink installation costs about $300,000 per private jet
“It's about a 300,000 dollar cost to install on an aircraft like this. Very slightly on a bigger aircraft or smaller aircraft.”
Joby Invests to Ramp Production to Two to Four Aircraft Monthly
“We've made capital investments to ramp from one to two aircraft a month, and now two to four aircraft a month.”
Bevirt: Chinese aerospace facilities are scaling for thousands of aircraft yearly
“A few weeks ago, I was in China, and I saw firsthand how fast they're moving... They are, in China, I saw production facilities that are scaling for thousands of aircraft per year.”
Evans: AI infrastructure may become a high-cost oligopoly without network effects
“So you've got kind of a down the stack question, which might end up looking like semiconductors or aircraft or something where it's just, there's no network effects, it's just really expensive. And maybe, you know, there's only two people who make aircraft. Th…”
Landesberg: Seneca drones cover 30 square miles in sub-10 minutes
“Our aircraft covered 30 square miles. So you could cover a 30 square mile area in sub 10 minute response time with effectively a full engine's worth of suppression payload.”
Landesberg: Seneca will deploy dozens and hopefully hundreds of aircraft next year
“I mean, I will have certainly dozens of aircraft, hopefully hundreds next year.”
Long-range aviation, shipping, and chemicals will remain hydrocarbon-based for decades
“Fast aircraft, big aircraft, long, long range aircraft, hydrocarbons. Probably long range shipping would stay that way. Like LNG, it's just so cheap. It's gonna stay that way for a long time. Paints are gonna stay hydrocarbon based. Chemicals, pesticides, herb…”
Joby required vertical integration because commercial eVTOL parts did not exist
“We figured out very early on in the process of developing this revolutionary new type of aircraft. That the components, the parts to actually make this aircraft just weren't available. You couldn't buy them from anyone. You couldn't, you had to make them essen…”
Ovitz: U.S. entertainment was historically second largest export behind aircraft
“At one time, entertainment was the second largest export of the United States, which no one realizes between movies, television, books, and records. Second largest export after aircraft.”
Zipline can turnaround and relaunch a delivery drone in two minutes
“We can swap batteries and we can have the aircraft back in the air about two minutes later.”
Benedict Evans: Tech has entered its phase of universal adoption consequences
“The first 50 years of tech, of cars or aircraft were about making car companies and working out what cars are and working out what aircraft are, and the second 50 years was everything that happened once everyone had a car, and everything that happened once air…”