PODCAST: Glenn Piper of WireMasters on Connecting the Future: The Critical Role of Wiring in Advanced Air Mobility

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is now live! This week, we were joined by Glenn Piper, Direc­tor of Glob­al Prod­uct Man­ag­er at Wire­Mas­ters.

eVTOL Insights host Jason Pritchard and Glenn explore the increas­ing­ly crit­i­cal role of wiring and elec­tri­cal archi­tec­ture in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

Glenn dis­cuss­es how the indus­try has moved beyond pro­to­type devel­op­ment towards cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, repeat­able pro­duc­tion and long-term reli­a­bil­i­ty, high­light­ing the chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with high-volt­age sys­tems, par­tial dis­charge, EMI, ther­mal man­age­ment and fault con­tain­ment.

He explains why elec­tri­cal archi­tec­ture must be con­sid­ered from the ear­li­est stages of air­craft devel­op­ment and exam­ines the man­u­fac­tur­ing and sup­ply chain chal­lenges that emerge as pro­grammes tran­si­tion towards pro­duc­tion.

The con­ver­sa­tion also explores lessons AAM can take from com­mer­cial and defence avi­a­tion, recent progress towards cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies includ­ing intel­li­gent pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion, embed­ded diag­nos­tics and active­ly cooled con­duc­tors.

Glenn also shares his vision for what the indus­try could achieve by 2031 and the role sup­pli­ers such as Wire­Mas­ters can play in sup­port­ing reli­able, cer­ti­fi­able air­craft at fleet scale.