PODCAST: Aeros CEO Igor Pasternak on Company’s Vision for Infrastructure-Free Cargo Delivery

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is live! This week, we were joined by Igor Paster­nak, CEO of Aeros, the Los Ange­les-based man­u­fac­tur­er behind the world’s first rigid elec­tric vari­able-buoy­an­cy air­ship (EVBA).

With more than two decades of devel­op­ment and FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion expe­ri­ence, Aeros is now push­ing toward com­mer­cial deploy­ment of a logis­tics plat­form that can pick up and deliv­er car­go any­where, with­out the need for roads, ports, run­ways, or oth­er fixed infra­struc­ture.

Igor shares the ori­gins of Aeros’ mis­sion to “save the world” by reimag­in­ing glob­al logis­tics and explains how the company’s patent­ed buoy­an­cy-con­trol sys­tem solves the cen­tu­ry-old prob­lem that pre­vent­ed air­ships from becom­ing prac­ti­cal car­go solu­tions.

He walks lis­ten­ers through the engi­neer­ing break­throughs behind vari­able buoy­an­cy, hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion, and the light­weight pres­sure-ves­sel struc­tures that make the air­ships com­mer­cial­ly viable.

The dis­cus­sion also explores how Aeros plans to trans­form the last-mile, mid­dle-mile, and first-mile logis­tics ecosys­tem through three vehi­cle class­es, rang­ing from a 10-ton urban air­ship sup­port­ing drone-based deliv­er­ies to a 244-ton inter­con­ti­nen­tal heavy-lift plat­form.

Igor also out­lines upcom­ing R&D mile­stones, includ­ing urban demon­stra­tions in Los Ange­les, and explains how the com­pa­ny is prepar­ing its next-gen­er­a­tion air­ships for FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from day one.

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