Commercial Aviation
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
American Optimist 
Latent Space 
Catalyst 
Top Founders 
How I Built This
8 statements about Commercial Aviation, every show
Bevirt: Hydrogen will redefine every class of commercial and military aircraft
“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side and for defense applications.”
Krause: Commercial airplanes still use alloys from the 1950s to 1970s
“The alloys that are in the plane I flew here on, the 19 fifties, 19 sixties, 19 seventies, they might be coated with some CMZs from the late 19 nineties.”
Bevirt: Hydrogen Will Over Time Redefine Every Class of Aircraft
“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side, and for defense applications.”
Klauber: Businesses generate over one-third of total aviation emissions
“25% of passengers are business travelers. Over one-third of the emissions come from businesses because they're almost all of the cargo emissions, and Business travelers tend to fly in, in larger seating, which is a larger part of the footprint of the air aircr…”
Solo aircraft brokering would be impossible today due to corporate bureaucracy
“Today would be a bureaucratic nightmare. It couldn't be done today.”
Mukhopadhyay: Net-zero aviation by 2050 requires electric, hydrogen, and SAF
“And then on the lower end, electrify everything. As much can be electrified, should be electrified. Wherever hydrogen can be used, should be used, and everything else will require SAF to decarbonize, and that's really the only way we get to net zero emissions …”
A $10 oil increase cost commercial aviation $1 billion in 2008
“Every 10 dollar increase in a barrel of oil at that time represented about a one billion dollar increase in fuel prices for the commercial aviation.”