PODCAST: Piers Olsen of Olsen Actuators and Drives on its growing role within Advanced Air Mobility

Our next pod­cast episode is live! This week, we wel­comed Piers Olsen, CEO of Olsen Actu­a­tors & Dri­ves.

In this episode, Piers shares his expe­ri­ences as an engi­neer for more than three decades by giv­ing an assess­ment of the cur­rent avi­a­tion mar­ket and the changes he has seen in his career so far.

He then intro­duces us to his com­pa­ny and work it does in the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, before going into detail about elec­tric actu­a­tors and their role in eVTOL air­craft. One of the com­pa­ny’s cus­tomers is UK firm Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, so Piers talks to us about the work they have been car­ry­ing out for the OEM.

And final­ly, he shares more details about the oth­er work Olsen Actu­a­tors and Dri­ves does in oth­er sec­tors, and how it all relates back to the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty and elec­tric mobil­i­ty.

Please click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the pod­cast, which is avail­able on whichev­er plat­form you choose.