Aviation

Sustainable aviation fuel or SAF really fits a need that we have today and long into the future.

When we think about, hey, how do you decarbonize this? SAF is the answer because it's a drop in fuel that means we don't have to change our planes, means we don't have to change what's happening at the airport.

Companies, governments, even Taylor Swift, they're all trying to figure out how to cut the climate impacts created by their air travel.

And that includes plant-based oils, used cooking oil and animal fats, farming waste, or even carbon dioxide that's captured from the air.

So you can make jet fuel out of all sorts of materials.

But I'm a little confused because that's still, you're still burning carbon with sustainable aviation fuel.

So how does that math, math? Yeah.

Yeah, how does the math math? You're right.

And one of the big things that people really liked was the ability to solo.

And they were far more capable of handling all the aviation tasks, not just the maneuvering and the performance, but also just communication and management of radio and all the navigation that's required to be a good aviator as a solo pilot.

So that's the sort of stuff that I think we're very excited about is the Army is going to do a lot of great things in this program.

Some of them require aircraft, but honestly, there's a lot of great things they're doing in our procedural and training approach.

But then the neat thing is once these aviators do go through a whole career and retire, they'll be supporting the big growth of our products in the civil space.

So as the 88 gets into the aeromedical application, we're actually almost going to do the reverse.

They'll train 66s when they're in Army aviation training.

you know, kind of a cadet level.

Right.

So he founded the Aviation, uh, Aviator Entrepreneur Academy, where he helps now, now helps pilots take the skills and the experience they built in the cockpit and apply it to a life and a career beyond the cockpit, whether it's before retirement or if there's a layoff coming up or, you know, a medical makes that decision for them.

Tevin, welcome to First Class Leaders.

Wow.

Because once you get to retirement, which not, not everybody does, unfortunately, right? The 65 is a hard, is a hard limit.

But you know, you know it very well, you know, scratch on the retina, it's game over.

You know, on a regular heartbeat, and now, you know, every time you go for an, um, your either six-month check or your annual check, then, you know, the AME, the Aviation Medical Examiner is there, you know, kind of zoned in at you and, and, and, and looking at any signs to, not to fail you, but to sort of like tell you like, "Maybe you need to step away from this." So I don't, I don't think it's logical that we live and we work in the most redundant industry, and yet we are the ones who don't have any sort of redundancy.

[laughs] Yeah.