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▶ 1:29 · $HEART-AEROSPACE · Heart Aerospace CEO details hybrid-electric regional airliner with 48% better operating economics
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Heart Aerospace Built the World’s Largest Electric Aircraft

2026-09-01 · 2 company · 3 thematic
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andrew porceland

Founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace, a hybrid-electric aircraft startup building the ES-30 30-seat regional airliner. PhD in jet engines from MIT, inspired by Elon Musk's 2012 talk on electric aviation. Grew up near Swedish air force base.

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“We build hybrid electric aircraft, but our mission is to reduce the cost of air travel, and we're building the technology to support that. With a relatively small team, they're going after something that Boeing and Airbus have not been abl…”
—andrew porceland
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