New podcast episode: green aviation with Bjorn Fehrm

May 30

Written By Miquel

Electric airplanes are getting lots of attention lately, yet, at least one industry expert doesn’t buy the hype.

According to aeronautical engineer Bjorn Fehrm, aviation researcher and author of aviation blog “Bjorn’s Corner” at Leeham Company, “e” in ePlane should stand for “environment” rather than “electrical”.

In this conversation we review one by one the different alternatives that currently exist to make commercial aircraft greener and move towards the goal of making aviation carbon-free. An advance: electrical batteries are still far from where they should be to make mainstream electrical aviation possible…the good news, though, is that there is a whole range of other technologies that could get us moving in that direction…

Listen to this episode of the Allplane podcast to learn what these green flying technologies are and what are their pros and cons…!