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andrew porceland

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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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$HEART-AEROSPACEHeart Aerospace

Heart Aerospace CEO details hybrid-electric regional airliner with 48% better operating economics

Hybrid-electric 30-seat aircraft targeting regional routes under 500 miles leverages electric motor simplicity (one moving part, zero wear) and battery economics to achieve 48% better operating economics vs 40-year-old turboprop designs, with reserves handled by small turbine generator enabling existing airport infrastructure use.

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Heart Aerospace
HIGHandrew porceland·Y Combinator·24 days ago·Heart Aerospace Built the World’s Largest Electric Aircraft
Heart Aerospace CEO details hybrid-electric regional airliner with 48% better operating economics
Hybrid-electric 30-seat aircraft targeting regional routes under 500 miles leverages electric motor simplicity (one moving part, zero wear) and battery economics to achieve 48% better operating economics vs 40-year-old turboprop designs, with reserves handled by small turbine generator enabling existing airport infrastructure use.
"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 go…"
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Air & Space Mobilitytailwind
Hybrid-electric regional aircraft target 48% operating cost advantage over aging turboprop fleets
Heart Aerospace's ES-30 hybrid-electric 30-seater exploits the inefficiency of jet turbines on short routes (<500 miles) where taxi, takeoff, and landing burn disproportionate fuel, using electric motors with one moving part and battery packs equivalent to four Teslas to achieve 48% better operating economics, with a turbine generator only for reserves enabling use of 5,000 existing US airports.
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Advanced Manufacturingtailwind
In-house actuator production cuts lead times from years to days enabling rapid iteration
Heart Aerospace vertically integrates actuator manufacturing (15 components per actuator, shared across aileron, rudder, landing gear, braking, propeller pitch) reducing supplier count from eight to one and lead times from one year to days, creating a hardware iteration speed advantage akin to SpaceX's approach.
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Robotics & Physical AItailwind
Electric aircraft architecture enables software-defined autonomy path from remote pilot to cargo autonomy
The electric motor's constant torque profile and software-controlled propulsion create a 'computer on wings' platform where fault-injection testing and simplified mechanics enable a phased autonomy roadmap: remote pilot supporting multiple aircraft → cargo autonomy → passenger autonomy, leveraging existing Waymo-style remote operations.