Hello and welcome to episode 177 of Ab Talk. I am Eim Petchenick, technically on vacation, and here all by myself, as

Jason has gone missing. We'll find him by next week and be back with an all new episode then.

But we would be remiss if we didn't at least touch this week

on the huge massive incredible news that American Airlines has placed a non-refundable deposit for 20 of Boom's supersonic overture jets.

So for comment on that, we now turn to airline weekly editor and official Avtok chief

short answer correspondent correspondent Ned Russell.

Ned, does this small non-refundable deposit by American Airlines move the needle at all on boom,

given the fact that they do not yet even have an engine for the aircraft?

Not even close the end.

Thanks, Ned.

We'll have a bit more to discuss on next week's episode.

Back in March, we spoke with Andy Taylor, the Chief Solutions Officer at

Nats, the UK's Air Navigation Service Provider, to understand the idea of digital towers in

air traffic control and how the concept has evolved to be more than just

cameras and screens. We'll revisit our conversation with Andy on this week's recap of conversations that we've enjoyed throughout 2022.

Joining us now is Andy Taylor, the Chief Solutions Officer for Digital Towers at Nats, which is the UK's Air Navigation Service

provider, as well as a pretty forward-looking organization from all that I've been reading about you

Andy and all that you've been doing.

So thank you so much for coming on the podcast and talking about it today.

Welcome.

Thank you very much.

It's great to be here and I hope that I can give you some interesting insights to what we're doing

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