The Allplane Podcast Allplane

Things we talk about in this episode

Elizabeth’s and Mike professional background in airline communications

What is a crisis in professional communication terms?

Is the airline industry facing a communications crisis over sustainability

What can airlines do about it when there are no easy or straightforward answers at hand

Greenwashing and greenhushing

Is there are model of crisis communications that all airlines can follow regardless of the size?

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Ryan’s professional background and his role as Executive Creative Director

What is Landor? Why it has such a major role in defining the aesthetics of the airline industry

What famous airline brands are the work of Landor designers

What makes a great airline brand?

What do the brands of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and easyJet communicate respectively

How has airline branding evolved over time

How often should an airline update its brand

Ryan’s favourite airline branding projects

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Billy’s professional background in aviation and how he came up with the Seaglider idea

What is a wing-in-ground vehicle (also known as ground-effect vehicle)

The history of wing-in-ground vehicles

What is a Seaglider and how it works

Is a wing-in-ground vehicle a plane or a boat?

What are the capabilities of the Seaglider?

Where is REGENT now with its Seaglider development programme?

Market feedback from airlines and ferry companies

Investors in REGENT Craft

Next milestones

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Aleksey’s background in aviation and at the cutting edge of aerospace research

What is Natilus and what novelties it brings about in:

Airframe design

Green propulsion

Automation and autonomous flight

Why Natilus decided to focus on the cargo market

How did the Natilus project start and earlier iterations of its concept

Why a Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) design

Where is the project now and what are the next milestones

Natilus Silicon Valley investors

What market feedback is Natilus getting. Customers and orders.

Last but not least: what’s in a name? The story behind Natilus’ name

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Charles role as Director of Aviation at the The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

What does The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey do and which airports and other infrastructure it manages

The New York City airport system

The multiple redevelopment projects currently ongoing at NYC’s airports

Sustainability at the airports managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

How airports in the NYC area are preparing for the eVTOL revolution

Eric Lithun is a successful software entrepreneur from Norway, who, after selling the company he had co-founded, focused his efforts on the development of an electric seaplane.
Elfly is a startup developing a new generation battery-powered seaplane.
Electric aviation is tough: energy density is not yet there for most use cases, but this is not the case, Eric thinks, of the many of the missions seaplanes operate nowadays.
In areas like the Norwegian fjords or the Maldives, seaplanes can play an important role linking communities that, while not distant as the crow (or the seaplane!) flies, are separated by some stretch of water that make air transport a desirable and efficient option.
An aircraft that can operate those short distances economically, sustainably and with little need for infrastructure can open up numerous opportunities in this type of places. This is why Elfly plans not only to develop a new generation of electric seaplanes that can be upgraded progressively as new battery technology becomes available, but also to become an operator on its very own, showing to the world the operational and financial feasibility of the concept.
Eric is a fantastic conversationalist that lays out very clearly what. are the the key factors that will make possible for the seaplanes to experience a renaissance of sorts in the coming decades.
Tune in for a fascinating conversation about Elfly and the future of electric seaplanes!




































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Things we talk about in this episode Eric’s professional background and how he got into aviation
The Elfly story, background and current status
Why electric seaplanes have a compelling business case in Norway
How Elfly plans to avoid some of the issues that have prevented a more widespread use of seaplanes
The NoEmi seaplane, features and charateristics
Eric’s plan to serially-produce the NoEmi seaplane






























ResourcesElfly
The previous podcast with Tomas Brødreskift
The announcement of a cooperation agreement between Elfly and the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway, including the vintage-style poster we talk about during our conversation with Eric.
A report by the Nordic Network for Electric Aviation (NEA) about opportunities for electric aviation in Scandinavia











































































































The NoEmi in flight (as you may see it one day in the Norwegian fjords)

















Podcast Music: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3762-five-armiesLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/






























Interview Transcript:(please note that, although we strive to make it as close as possible to the original recording, the transcript may not be 100% accurate)