Helicopters
topic on 5 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes
Founder's Journal 
American Optimist 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
TBPN
9 statements about Helicopters, every show
Rahul Sidhu says drones are the only sustainable 24/7 aerial monitoring
“We can't do that with a helicopter today unless you've just kept five helicopters up, 24 seven, and that's just not sustainable. This is the only way to actually achieve that level of safety.”
Bevirt: Helicopters Have Hundreds of Single Points of Failure
“Instead of a helicopter with, ah, hundreds of single points of failure on the rotor and the tail rotor.”
Goldstein: Archer eVTOLs are safer, quieter, and cheaper than helicopters
“It's safer than helicopters. They're super quiet. They cost less.”
Bevirt: Joby aircraft hover about 100 times quieter than conventional helicopters
“Yeah, it's about a hundred times quieter than a helicopter and that's in hover.”
Coogan: Flying cars already exist in the form of helicopters
“My hot take on flying cars has always been that we have them. They're called helicopters and you can just go buy one as long as you're wealthy enough.”
Adam Goldstein: eVTOL aircraft are mechanically simpler and safer than helicopters
“A helicopter is actually way more complex than what we're building. We're actually building a much more simplified version. Of what exists. It's safer. It's fully redundant.”
Tripling optimistic eVTOL projections would not match current helicopter volume
“So if you took all three of us, you took our most bullish estimates that we have and you triple them, we still would not even replace helicopters.”
Adcock: Electric aircraft are far safer and quieter than helicopters
“With electric aircraft, you can basically make him like much safer and more quiet than like traditional helicopters. Like it's a far better product overall.”
Electric aircraft remove thousands of parts and improve safety over helicopters
“When you moved electric, you were basically removing thousands of parts that are not necessary in a helicopter. You're changing the dynamics, like, the aerodynamic dynamics of the rotors and the blades that Change, like, the acoustic signature significantly. Y…”