New podcast episode with David Valaer, founder and CEO of Green Taxi

Aircraft consume an insane amount of fuel before even taking to the skies. As airliners are on the ground, they often use their own engines to power their way through airport. This is a particularly inefficient use of such a powerful piece of equipment and one that generates also a large volume of carbon emissions.

But it doesn’t need to be this way. Unlike flight propulsion, which has still faces many challenges, aircraft taxiing may be a much easier problem to solve.

This is what our guest on this episode, David Valaer, thinks and the reason he founded Green Taxi Aerospace, a startup that leverages the latest generation of electric motors to decarbonize aircraft movements while on the ground.

David is an aviation man through and through. He got his pilot license at age 16 and has since flown all sorts of aircraft and missions, from salmon-spotting in Alaska to F-16s with the Iowa National Air Guard. Back in civilian life, and after acquiring, scaling up and selling a business that makes systems for aerial firefighting, David turned his attention to the challenge of aircraft taxiing.

What if new technology could drastically reduce carbon emissions from taxiing while, at the same time, saving airlines millions of dollars in fuel?

Tune in to listen how David plans to do just that with Green Taxi!

The Allplane Podcast #134: electrifying aircraft taxiing, with David Valaer (Green Taxi)