Ben Katz

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144 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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WSJ What’s News · Flying Into the Future: How Will AI Reshape the Aviation Industry? · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

It's the question of human labor and the people that are at airports managing ATC towers, that are conducting the maintenance, that are doing the ground handling, that are making the planes, that are flying the planes.

I mean, it's endless.

There are millions and millions and millions of people in this industry, and we lost a lot of them during the pandemic.

It's a very appealing use case, absolutely.

And one that everybody is really watching closely.

Airbus embarked on this ambition to build a hydrogen powered aircraft.

They said that it would fly by 2035 and most recently have said, well, no, that's not really going to happen.

Lots of supersonic planes, lots of press releases, nothing to show for it.

Exactly.

And that's kind of been a really consistent challenge.

I mean, even if you look at what's known as the eVTOL industry, right, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, I sometimes think of them as kind of electric helicopters, although the industry would probably push back at that.

They do.

that characterization.

But what we've seen is kind of a lot of the stuff coming through and not really breaking through.

What the promise is, is that AI can produce a way of really testing and figuring out the designs on paper.

You know, are there little tweaks that we can make, almost like a Formula One car, you know, every little bit of improvement to the airframe that makes it more, you know, aerodynamic over time, a huge boon in terms of fuel savings.

And

The issue here, it really comes down to the remarkably high standard that the industry has in terms of safety, right?

The regulators are at the core of these kind of projects.

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