@FredrikHjelm4 Higher education should be reformed to premiere STEM degrees. Perhaps cancel parts of the studielån upon graduation from a stem program.
On Wednesday, Astro Mechanica will put on a YC Demo Day demo for the ages when it unveils its flight-ready Turboelectric Adaptive Engine.
And not a moment too soon.
The airline industry’s decay -- captured by Boeing's demise -- is a symptom of the end of the Jet Age.
We’ve sucked all we can out of the turbofan. We’re left cutting smaller slices of a stale and stagnant pie.v
Restoring air travel to its rightful glory requires a new propulsion paradigm and a new business model to fit it.
Astro Mechanica is building the Turboelectric Adaptive Engine – the most efficient at any speed up to and including supersonic. It plans to vertically integrate around the engine: building engines and aircrafts, and selling seats on them directly to customers.
The business needs to be as adaptive as the engine. It will start with satellite launches to generate revenue and flight data, then move into private supersonic planes, then into larger supersonic planes, until one day, in a couple of decades, Astro Mechanica may just be The Aerospace Company.
This deep dive is about what it takes to rebuild a trillion-dollar industry to become a trillion-dollar company that shrinks the world.
Welcome to the Turboelectric Age.
@ottarb@RichardSSutton Just bought it.
Was also convinced by the blurbs.
Even though not a deep expert sometimes it is exactly the people with an outside perspective that can bring something fresh to the table.