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Billy Talheimer

Co-Founder and CEO, REGENT · 1 appearance on the record.

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Billy Thalheimer is an aerospace engineer who worked at Aurora Flight Sciences, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin before co-founding REGENT. He leads the company's development of all-electric wing-in-ground-effect seagliders designed for coastal passenger travel and defense logistics.

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3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 7 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Billy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Wing-in-ground craft are regulated by the Coast Guard, bypassing the FAA
“It turns out like, if you go into U S law, there's a definition of a winging ground effect craft as a vessel. We're like, that's pretty cool. So we can build this flying machine. So we have this high speed mobility. We can service this massive coastal market a…”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 39:32 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Billy Talheimer on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Billy Talheimer said on Sourcery that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Deploying 1,000 REGENT seagliders in the Taiwan Strait deters World War III
“And then in defense, in 10 years, we will not have had a World War III Because of Regents efforts and many other efforts in deterring that conflict, because we put a thousand sea gliders in the Taiwan trait and we said, try it.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 46:50 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
REGENT seagliders fly above sonar and below long-range radar
“By flying low, you know, we don't touch the water surface. So we're above any sonar detection and we're just over the surface of the water. So we're below long range radar in some cases. So we can actually move around and be very hard to detect. And also becau…”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 34:52 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Wing-in-ground craft are regulated by the Coast Guard, bypassing the FAA
“It turns out like, if you go into U S law, there's a definition of a winging ground effect craft as a vessel. We're like, that's pretty cool. So we can build this flying machine. So we have this high speed mobility. We can service this massive coastal market a…”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 39:32 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Rhode Island's sailing carbon fiber engineers are more advanced than aerospace talent
“Newport, Rhode Island, it's like the center of the sailing world. So we have these incredible craftsmen and carbon fiber engineers that are actually like way more advanced than what you'd find in aerospace today.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 45:05 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
REGENT's 15,000-pound seaglider produces no wake while riding on its hydrofoils
“And on the hydrofoils, there's no wake at all. So it just passes you and it's imperceptible and it's 15,000 pounds.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 35:34 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Seaglider hydrofoils handle five-foot waves, enabling 90% harbor utilization worldwide
“So we have this hydrofoiling mode that lets us take up to five feet waves and we've pulled, you know buoy data from all around the world and we're like 90 plus percent utilization in every harbor in the world.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 42:56 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2028
REGENT's commercial electric seagliders achieve up to 180 miles of range
“So in the commercial side up to about a 180 miles of range on battery technology alone.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 30:25 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Disclosure
REGENT has been under a prototyping contract with the Marine Corps
“We've been on contract with the Marine Corps for a couple of years now going through the prototyping process, testing, developing war gaming, et cetera.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 31:53 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
REGENT's seaglider has a fully automated flight control system for hands-free flight
“Right now on the sea glider, we have a fully automated flight control system. So if you take your hands off, The flies itself. And we have this really robust sensor system that's looking ahead and down and underwater and controlling your altitude.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 49:21 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
REGENT seagliders travel at 180 mph but deploy like conventional boats
“We're going a 180 miles an hour on the wing with the ability to be deployed like a boat.”
Billy Talheimer Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 51:17 The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The CEOs Behind America’s Next Frontier in Air & Sea Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 7, 2025 18m
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