Revolutions in Vertical Flight
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight looks at the history of the helicopter and tiltrotor, discovering the key individuals and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry that we know today. And we take a look to the future, consider how next-generation rotorcraft will shape the future battlespace, and hear how the innovation underway today will enable the urban air mobility of tomorrow.
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Mission Focus - the Role of Autonomy
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. In this episode, we hear how autonomy will be a defining trend in the future of aviation. Fully autonomous aircraft could one day supplement or even replac...
Mission Focus - the Role of Autonomy
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. In this episode, we hear how autonomy will be a defining trend in the future of aviation. Fully autonomous aircraft could one day supplement or even replac...
Mission Focus - Disaster Relief
September 07, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. In this episode, we'll hear about the many advantages that helicopters offer during disaster response and hear from pilots from around the world about this...
Mission Focus - The Utility of the Helicopter
September 07, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. The helicopter has become an essential tool for militaries, parapublic agencies and emergency services. But its unique characteristics have also ensured ...
Mission Focus - Law Enforcement
September 07, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. In this episode, we hear how at the end of the Vietnam War, thousands of young helicopter pilots returned to the US looking for work. Many of these men u...
Mission Focus - Emergency Medical Services
September 07, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBContent warning: This episode contains content that may be upsetting to some listeners, including descriptions of how helicopters have responded to real-life tragedies. While we feel the comments are essential in telling the complete story, listener discretion is advised. In our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In our second series, we learn more about...
Mission focus - Search and Rescue
September 07, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBIn our first series, we learnt about the history of vertical flight and discovered the key pioneers and revolutionary moments that created the rotorcraft industry we know today. In this second series, we learn more about the helicopter’s role in society, and how it helps overcome obstacles, protect the public and ultimately save lives. We'll hear from a range of operators about how they use helicopters to carry out those tasks that are too expensive or dangerous to conduct by other means...
The Future of VTOL Innovation
December 20, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio p...
The Dream of Urban Air Mobility
December 20, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio p...
The Future Battlespace
December 19, 2019 17:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio pod...
The Tiltrotor
December 19, 2019 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio p...
The Dawn of the Helicopter
December 19, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio p...
The Birth of VTOL
December 19, 2019 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBWelcome to Shephard Studio’s Revolutions in Vertical Flight, brought to you in partnership with Bell. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight podcast tells the little-known story of the history of rotorcraft, from the autogiro and helicopter, to the tiltrotor and eVTOL platforms in development today. Revolutions in Vertical Flight reveals the stories of a small group of pioneers, the visions and beliefs that drove them, and their approach to invention and innovation. And the Shephard Studio p...
Revolutions in Vertical Flight trailer
December 09, 2019 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.64 MBThe history of the helicopter is the story of a few key individuals that were able to overcome the technical challenges that made vertical flight possible. Those early pioneers created rotorcraft that would transform, enrich and ultimately save lives. But they could only have dreamed of the VTOL innovation underway today, that promises to revolutionise aviation even further. Welcome to Shephard Studio’s series on Revolutions in Vertical Flight, sponsored by our partner Bell. Over the...