Brett Adcock

So like I learned how to do that and run engineering and run the company.

And there was like a lot of through trial and error.

And I just felt like I could learn it.

I started in industrial system engineering at University of Florida.

And then, you know, ran engineering and ran the company at Battery.

So I basically just hit the books.

I tried to learn as much as possible about three subject areas.

First was electrification, which at the time, electric vehicles were really doing well, and even drones.

Vertical takeoff and landing, vertical lift, which is traditional rotorcraft or helicopter.

And the third is winged aircraft, like airplanes.

You really need wings.

So you basically have to learn about those three subjects.

So I basically bought my basement downstairs at home, where there's every possible book on these subjects you could imagine, and started reading as much as I possibly could.

And this was during the year transition.

As I was transitioning out of Vetteri into Archer, I was reading every possible thing.

And then I found a small community of folks that were hosting on-site either half-week or week-long courses for this.

And so I would go to these, sometimes they're sponsored by NASA or by colleges or whatever it would be, on basically rotorcraft or electric propulsion or winged aircraft aerodynamics, and I would basically try to learn as much as possible.

It got to the point where I was completely obsessed with this algorithm I was building on electric aircraft sizing.

How would you actually build an electric aircraft?

So electric aircraft, what's interesting is in rotorcraft, you basically want to create the most efficient lifting device possible.