The Allplane Podcast

The Allplane Podcast #143: leading innovation at IAG,...

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2026/10/01

International Airlines Group (IAG) is one of the world’s largest airline groups, with British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, Aer Lingus and LEVEL in its ranks. And like other leading industry players in such a technology-driven industry, IAG wants to have first row in the innovation arena.This is the reason it created IAGi, where “i” stands for “Innovation”, a division which has the mission to keep the airline group ahead of the game when it comes to technology. It does so by deploying two different

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The Allplane Podcast #142: how to prevent contrail...

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2026/09/21

In the debate about how to aviation’s contribution to global warming there is a factor that is getting an increasing amount of attention: contrails.These happen when water vapour and particles from the aircraft’s jet exhaust form little crystals upon entering in contact with the very cold air that prevails at high altitudes. Depending on the circumstances of the time and place, those little crystals can then have one of two opposite effects.They can either the help cool the surface of the planet by

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The Allplane Podcast #141: ETS, CORSIA and SAF with...

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2026/07/18

Marie Owens Thomsen, Chief Economist and SVP Sustainability at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has emerged as one of the most outspoken voices in the aviation decarbonization debate. Is the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) fit for purpose? Are the EU's current sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandates fit for purpose? Are airlines carrying a fair share of the decarbonization cost burden? These are some of the questions Marie addresses regularly at industry conferences, and

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The Allplane Podcast #140: electric aviation...

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2026/07/13

The path towards electric aviation is not an easy one. On this podcast we have talked on previous occasions about some of the challenges it faces, from getting batteries with enough energy density to setting up a supply chain from scratch.One area we have so far - until now, at least! - paid little attention to is that of ground infrastructure.Our guest for this episode, Dr. Stefan Breunig, is the co-founder and managing director of Albatross, a German company that is working precisely in this

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The Allplane Podcast #139: eVTOL supply chains with...

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2026/05/23

eVTOL developers promise thousands of aircraft by the start of next decade, but is this realistic?I am not even talking about the long and costly certification processes, let’s assume, for the sake of simplicity, that this is sorted. What about the capacity of aerospace supply chains, already strained trying to cope with the demand from traditional aircraft makers, to serve this new growth market?Are the current processes and technologies flexible enough to respond to this market demand?We are going

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The Allplane Podcast #138: the tokenization of the...

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2026/03/29

Blockchain technology has been making headlines for quite a few years, so perhaps may come as a surprise to many of you that its use in fields such as aerospace finance has been rather limited to date.But this may soon change if a Florida-based company, Forum Markets (previously known as ETHZilla) gets its way.On this episode of the podcast, two of Forum Markets’ VPs, John Kristoff and Max Van der Griend, explain they have used Ethereum-based tokens to securitize airliner engine leases for a major

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The Allplane Podcast #137: the state of the aerospace...

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2026/03/14

The popularity of flight tracking apps has transcended the boundaries of the aviation community and truly become mainstream.I guess most of our readers and listeners are familiar with the market leader in this space, but what if I told you the competitive landscaspe in this space is far from static?Alex Lungu is the CEO of Wingbits, a ventur capital-backed Swedish startup that is aiming to disrupt the flight tracking industry by introducing a new model to build a flight tracking community which

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The Allplane Podcast #136: a new approach to flight...

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2026/02/25

The popularity of flight tracking apps has transcended the boundaries of the aviation community and truly become mainstream.I guess most of our readers and listeners are familiar with the market leader in this space, but what if I told you the competitive landscaspe in this space is far from static?Alex Lungu is the CEO of Wingbits, a ventur capital-backed Swedish startup that is aiming to disrupt the flight tracking industry by introducing a new model to build a flight tracking community which

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The Allplane Podcast #135: an advanced air mobility...

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2026/02/01

Every now and then is good to stop for a second, and take some time to think and assess what’s going on around you.If you are following the advanced air mobility industry on a day to day basis it is easy to get carried away by a deluge of triumphalist announcements and press releases.But what is real and what is mere hype?Adrian Norris is someone that not only knows the aviation industry inside out after decades of experience in different capacities, but he’s also been an aircraft entrepreneur prior

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The Allplane Podcast #134: electrifying aircraft...

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2025/12/18

What if the lowest-hanging fruit in aviation decarbonization was not in the air, but waiting right in front of us, on the ground?This is what David Valaer, founder and CEO of Green Taxi Aerospace thinks. A pilot since the age of 16, David has spent his whole life surrounded by aircraft, either spending summers a bush pilot in Alaska, flying F-16 fighter jets for the US Air Force or, later on, scaling up and selling a successful helicopter tech company.A few years ago, David became intrigued by the

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The Allplane Podcast #133: large electric aircraft...

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2025/11/04

What is building a large scale battery-powered aircraft was more feasible than originally thought?Our guest on this episode of the podcast, Daniel Rosen Jacobson co-founder and co-CEO of Elysian Aircraft, has come on the podcast to explain how asking the right questions and conducting scientific research laid the groundwork for the truly ambitious project that is the E9X electric airliner.While most electric aircraft projects have focused on the development of smaller aircraft, Elysian Aircraft is

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The Allplane Podcast #132: Airships w/ Michael...

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2025/10/13

Is the airship ready for a big comeback? This is not some sort of retro-futurist sci-fi scenario, since there are a handful of companies working to develop a new generation modern-day iteration of this iconic type of aircraft.But, in fact, airships and, more generally, lighter than air aircraft never fully went away. The US Navy, for example, operated blimps until 1962 (and experimented with them again in the 2000s). Airships have also been used for advertising purposes and, for some time, even

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The Allplane Podcast #131 with Megha Bhatia, EVE Air...

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2025/09/18

Among the top contenders in the eVTOL space, EVE Air Mobility stands out—not because it's closer than others to entering service or because it generates more media headlines.In fact, what sets EVE aside from the pack is the backing of one of the world’s most successful and technologically advanced aircraft makers, Embraer, which has opted to move slowly but steadily in the field of advanced air mobility.And leading EVE Air Mobility on the commercial front is our guest in this episode of the podcast,

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The Allplane Podcast #130 with Mukund Karanjikar,...

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2025/09/07

The world badly needs sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and, fortunately, there is not shortage of entrepreneurs willing to take on the challenge to scale up production. Now, are all SAF pathways the same? Of course not.Today on the podcast we will talk with Mukund Karanjikar, founder and CEO of CleanJoule, a SAF startup based in Utah that is developing a SAF production method that delivers more joules of energy per unit of fuel mass than other traditional biogenic pathways.What’s more, not content

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The Allplane Podcast #129 with Shashank Nigam...

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2025/09/01

In this episode of the we welcome Shashank Nigam, who, together with Dirk Singer, has co-authored the Sustainability in the Air book series, two volumes that cover many of the most prominent entrepreneurs, companies and projects striving to make air travel cleaner and more sustainable.Now, Shashank is no newcomer to the aviation industry. He is also the founder of Simpliflying, a firm that has been providing advice in marketing and sustainability to airlines and airports for quite a few years, and

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The Allplane Podcast #128 with Otto Aviation COO...

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2025/07/22

In this episode of the podcast we’ll explore one of the most truly disruptive clean-sheet aircraft projects currently underway.Scott Drennan is President and Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Otto Aviation, a US startup aircraft maker that is developing an ultra-efficient executive jet. The Phantom 3500 uses a teardrop-shaped design to take full advantage of the laminar flow principle and reduce drag to a minimum.Otto Aviation is, in fact, not a newcomer. The firm has been working on this concept

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The Allplane Podcast #127: how ELeather saves...

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2025/06/28

When we talk about aviation sustainability, the first thing that usually comes to mind is propulsion technologies or new aircraft designs.But there are other ways to lower the environmental footprint of flying. Some are even hidden in plain sight!Today we bring you the story of a company doing its bit to make aviation more sustainable, but in a rather original way: GenPhoenix makes ELeather, which is an innovative lightweight material that can be found on many aircraft seats.ELeather is actually

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The Allplane Podcast #126: the electric jet engine,...

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2025/06/07

Ivar Aune is the CEO of SiriNor, a company working on an electric jet engine.Yes, you read that right! While most electric aircraft projects aim to power a propeller, SiriNor is going for the very technology that powers most of today’s commercial aviation industry.After all, a modern jet engine works by making a turbine spin. But while conventional jets rely on a combustion process that produces very high temperatures, SiriNor aims to replace that bit with an electrically-powered mechanism.The

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The Allplane Podcast #125: sewage to SAF w/Yvonne...

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2025/05/26

Wizz Air takes pride in having the lowest carbon footprint per passenger and kilometer in the airline industry, 52g, number that it expects to bring further down as it renews the fleet with larger, denser and more efficient aircraft.But fleet renewal alone won’t do the trick. In fact, “fleet” is just one of the three “Fs” that the pan-European ultra-low-cost airline relies on to get to Net Zero by 2050, even in a context of growing air traffic.“Footprint”, that is, efficiency improvements in the way

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The Allplane Podcast #124, the state of the eVTOL...

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2025/04/28

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