The Vertical Space

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#115 Anders Forslund, Heart Aerospace: First flight of the world’s largest electric aircraft

#115 Anders Forslund, Heart Aerospace: First flight of the world’s largest electric aircraft17 Aug1 h 12 min

In this episode we speak with Anders Forslund, founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace, which is building the ES-30, a clean-sheet 30-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner. We recorded two days after Heart flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh, the largest battery-electric aircraft flown to date, and about a year after the company closed its Swedish operations and consolidated in Los Angeles. Most of the conversation was about whether electrification changes regional economics enough to bring b...