The Aerospace Executive Podcast

Business aviation is often misunderstood because the aircraft are the most visible part of the story. The brands, the cabins, the speed, the ramp presence, and the culture around private aircraft tend to dominate the public imagination. But the industry was not built around image. It was built around utility.

From the early aircraft companies in Wichita to the postwa...

In aerospace, we talk a lot about “the future of flight.” But most of that conversation has been driven by fantasy. Fully electric aircraft that can’t fly far enough, and technologies that look good in a render but can’t sustain the physics or economics of real aviation.

That’s why what Electra Aero is building feels like the first practical revolution in...

Defense is not just changing because the technology is changing. It is changing because the old way of buying, building, funding, and deploying that technology no longer matches the speed of the threat.

For decades, aerospace and defense have been built around massive programs, long procurement cycles, and the assumption that the government could define a requirement, ...

Private equity is often talked about like it’s either a villain or a jackpot. Founders fear it, corporate executives romanticize it, employees hear horror stories, and everyone seems to have an opinion about what happens when PE walks into a business.

But that framing misses the bigger shift happening across American industry.

Private equity is no longer some ni...