In Season Two, we begin tackling the biggest piece of electric aviation - the unmanned kind. Vries Strookman's work with the Urban Sky Lab is world leading in terms of thinking through how cities should approach the challenge.

Mentioned:

• Kennedy Approach: https://www.kennedyapproach.nl/
• Opposing Bases Podcast: https://www.opposingbases.com/
• Arcam: https://arcam.nl/
• Fabrications: https://www.fabrications.nl/

Jurjen de Jong is an absolute charging pioneer - he founded the GreenFlux EV charging company in 2008 - this is 12 years before the Model Y, and 3 years before even the Nissan Leaf. As such, the decisions they made led to standards that are still in place - the Type 2 AC charging connector for instance. And there was no integration standard, so they had to develop OCPP, now the global standard. While OCPP started in EU, it was picked up by California early and eventually the USA, Canada, even China.

It was super eye opening for me to talk to someone who was there. We talk through the differences and the similarities between aviation and automotive charging, and even talk standards, debating CSS and GEACS, and which missions each is best suited for.

For more:

• https://nrg2fly.com/
• https://efc.aero/

When I talked to Ben Stabler at Heart Aerospace, it finally clicked for me why they scrapped the all electric ES-19 design for the "independent hybrid" ES-30 - its all about IFR reserves and regional airliner economics - and it turns out those turboprops might not be used much... but they're a mass savings, not dead weight. How?