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Apr 2025
1h 4m

Atypical Ep. 10: Innovations in Sustaina...

Nethra Rajendran and Cecilia Rios
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Did you know that airplanes can run on waste cooking oil, municipal solid waste, forestry waste, and even algae in the form of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs)? Well, they can. 

Biomimicry, Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs), and aircrafts inspired by GEESE? Learn about some of the innovations happening right now in the aviation industry and where it's headed in the coming decades. The industry has some ambitious goals of reaching net zero by 2050, running aircrafts on mainly SAFs, using newer lightweight materials to reduce fuel consumption, and even getting aircrafts to fly in the same v-pattern as flocks of geese to lower their carbon footprints.

Hosts, Cecilia & Nethra, took field trip to Toulouse, France and attended the Airbus Summit 2025. Learn about their insights from the summit and hear some lightning interviews from a few of the leading experts at Airbus such as:

  • Julie Kitcher, Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Jonathan Beck, Flight Operations R&T IPT Leader
  • Sue Partridge, Head of Wing of Tomorrow Programme
  • Antjie Bulmann, Direct Air Capture Expert

 

 

 

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