The Otto Aviation Celera 500L makes some big fuel-efficiency and operation cost claims. It can glide 125 miles from 30,000 feet, but can it deliver on these promises? We discuss a jetpack incident at LAX airport, the potential of a supersonic Air Force One, Hyundai’s entrance into the EVTOL market, Gogo’s sale to Intelsat, and Tesla battery technology that could change the aviation industry forever.

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EP25 Transcript - Can the Otto Aviation Celera 500L Deliver on Efficiency Promises?

All right, welcome back. This is the struc podcast episode 25. I'm your cohost, Dan blewett and I'm here. Joined remotely by lightning protection expert. Allen hall, Allen, how are you? Great, Dan. Hey, uh, just reading the information about that auto, uh, aircraft design kinda looks like a fish with a propeller on the back.

That's a pretty cool thing. New technology, sort of old technology combination between the two. Super dynamic. Yeah. We've got some interesting things to cover today. So with our, some of our news stuff, um, there was a man in a jet pack reportedly near LA lax airport. So that's terrifying. So we'll talk a little bit about that.

Uh, Gogo has been sold to Intel set, so some movement in the radon because radon business, uh, we are going to talk about the auto aviation. Uh, they have a bullet shaped plane, which. That's some really interesting specs. I mean, it can glide up to 125 miles. They said. So the fuel efficiency is they're proposing is tremendous.

Um, and lastly, we'll also chat a little bit about, uh, potential for a supersonic air force, one, a Hyundai entering the EBTL market. And some battery advances by Tesla that might make a real big difference also in the electric aviation. So first let's talk about this jet pack fellow. Uh, what is your take here?

I, I saw this article. That they're investigating that there might've been a guy very close to the airport, which is obviously big cause for concern. Um, I mean, how do they regulate this stuff at the airport? Can't fly anything near an airport because an aircraft might run into it. So they're super cautious.

Pilots are very aware of, of periphery peripheral things around the airport that could pose a safety risk to the aircraft. So, uh, seeing, uh, somebody in a jet pack suit or something of the sort, probably set off a lot of alarm bells in the cockpit and, uh, because. The sh he shouldn't be doing that, but I don't think they have found who, who, what, when, where this thing is like this, this is still sort of a mystery.

As far as I can tell from the news sources, they haven't identified who was doing this. And is it, it wasn't a real person. Was it a dummy? Was it a drone of some sort who knows? Right. It could have been a high school kid with. So, you know, some sort of who, obviously they're not the kids aren't really at school right now looking to, you know, entertain themselves who knows.

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