The Allplane Podcast #105 - air freight moonshots w/Natilus founder Aleksey Matyushev

Is the air cargo market ripe for its own technology revolution?

Aleksey Matyushev and his team at Natilus are certainly doing their bit to make it happen.

A graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Aleksey has been working at the cutting edge of aerospace technology for quite some time, both on civilian and military projects.

He is the founder and CEO of Natilus, a Californian startup that is working on a family of truly disruptive blended-wing-body freigther aircraft that are also designed with autonomous flight capabilities and hydrogen propulsion in mind.

A tall order, for sure. But Natilus has secured the backing of quite a few prominent technology investors as well as some major players in the air cargo industry.

The Natilus project encapsulates also some of the themes that the broader aerospace industry faces in decades to come: go for a clean-sheet design or not? should commercial aircraft be autonomous or remotely operated? what’s the role of hydrogen in the future of aviation?

We talk about all this and some more with Aleksey in this episode of the podcast!