What podcasts say about AJ Piplica
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What AJ Piplica has said on podcasts
21 statements · 15 positive · 3 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
Dark Horse is designed as a reusable, uncrewed aircraft faster than the SR-71.
“Dark Horse is a hypersonic reusable aircraft, faster than the SR71, smaller than the SR71 with no person on board”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 42:08
Unmanned systems will become central to future warfare.
“unmanned systems are by all means the future of warfare”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 44:24
Dark Horse will fly autonomously without a human pilot in the loop.
“they'll fly the way that, you know, rockets fly today”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 44:53
Cargo transport is the most natural initial commercial application for hypersonic aircraft.
“cargo is the like natural entry point number one because you don't need to put people on the platform”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 48:39
Mach 4–5 travel would make distant economies effectively regional.
“Mach 4, Mach 5 travel, like it really takes the world and makes it regional”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 49:38
Faster transportation systems have historically driven economic growth.
“At any time in history that you've done that by whatever technological means, be it steam power and shipping or railroads or the interstate system in the US it's always driven economic growth”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 49:51
Hermeus’s precooler enables a gas turbine to operate at higher speeds without melting.
“we've done that through developing a pre cooler which cools down the air that's coming in so that the thing doesn't melt”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 51:23
A turbine-based combined-cycle engine has not previously flown, despite laboratory demonstrations.
“it's never been done in the sky. It's been done in the lab.”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 53:42
Hermeus plans to flight-test its precooler and ramjet components soon.
“we'll do that later this year. Okay. And then pretty soon we'll be flying the ramjet piece too”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 54:20
Hermeus builds roughly one new airplane annually to reduce technology risk.
“building roughly one new airplane per year that de risks the next step”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 54:50
Hermeus aims to increase Quarter Horse speed from Mach 1.21 to roughly Mach 1.5 or higher.
“we hit about Mach 1.21, so want to get that up a little bit higher. Maybe 1.5, a little bit north of that”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 57:05
The aircraft will be capable of launching AMRAAM missiles.
“The aircraft will be capable of releasing stores like an Amraam”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 58:04
Existing weapons could achieve approximately double their range when launched from the aircraft.
“existing weapons, double ish the range, maybe more”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 59:11
Quarter Horse 2.3 is intended to reach Mach 3 and enable ramjet ignition.
“get up into the Mach 3 range where you can start a ramjet engine”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:00:14
Long-duration high-speed flight is the final major technical challenge for Dark Horse.
“the next big thing and kind of the last big thing is long duration high speed flight”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:01:13
Hermeus will likely combine heat rejection and heat avoidance methods.
“likely it'll be a combination of the two”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:02:25
Using the precooler to cool the entire aircraft would be inefficient for extended periods.
“it would be like pretty inefficient to do that for long periods of time”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:02:47
Hermeus can remain privately financed if it maintains sufficient capital access.
“you can build it privately with sufficient access to capital”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:03:34
Hermeus expects to raise billions of dollars over time.
“I don't expect the numbers to be small, like, there will be billions of dollars that we'll want to raise”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:04:36
Hermeus monetizes technology-risk reduction funded by equity capital through government contracts.
“we are monetizing the tech de risking that we're doing with the equity capital that we're raising”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:05:21
The F-22 and F-35 each required decades and tens of billions of dollars for development.
“the F22 and F35, they each took 20 to 25 years to develop and like 30 and 60 billion dollars just for development”
Open the episode · Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner TableListen at 1:07:56
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