On this episode of Avtoc, we sit down with Alonhead, editorial director of EVetol.com, to get a primer on the world

of electric vertical takeoff and and welcome to episode 122 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Erbenowitz. Hello Ian, how are you? Hello Jason, I'm doing well, but not as good as you because you have had quite the week, sir.

Yeah, well, a day yesterday. I don't know if that equates to a whole week, but I had a fun day yesterday.

You had quite the 12. that equates to a whole week, but I had a fun day yesterday.

You had quite the 12 minutes in an expansive period of time.

So we talked last week about the new or upcoming seaplane service from from New York to to Boston and you got to kind of sort of test it out Yeah, kind of sort of test it out.

Yeah, kind of sorta.

I don't remember what my sentiments were about the service

when we talked last, honestly, I don't remember,

but they invited me out for a media demo flight.

So my, you know, my take on it totally changed for the positive.

No, I'm kidding about that.

But they did invite a lot of media out for some demo flights,

and it was really really fun. I've been on a seaplane before, but that was the internet company, Row 44, later Global Eagles Grumman Albatross, which is not really a commercial

seaplane that was, you know, militarized and later NASA-I's aircraft, but this was a Cessna 208-E-X-C-plane variant, just a couple years old, first flight in November 2019,

so this thing was brand new for, you know, all intents and purposes, and we got to go on a little demo

if I we didn't go all the way to Boston but we did take off out of

Manhattan's East 23rd Street seaport, Skyport. I'm not sure what you call it, but the Iota Code is

NYS. We took off. We did a little tour of Lower Manhattan. We cut across Central Park and we landed again in the East River and it was really, really cool and fun.

And a good time was had by all.

Yeah, it was great. I mean the aircraft is

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