Soaring the Sky Podcast
E107: Nixus Fly-By-Wire Project and Long Cross Country Flights with Zach Yamauchi
This is our fourth instalment of this ongoing series where we select and present episodes from Chuck Fulton’s highly-regarded soaring podcast. See Resources, below, for links where you can find Soaring the Sky, or simply click the green play button below to start listening. — Ed.
Our guest today is Zach Yamauchi, a twenty-three-year-old glider pilot and aerospace engineer currently working for a company focused on unmanned aircraft. Zach learned how to fly gliders while attending Cal Poly. He also had the oppertunity to work on the Nixus Project, the first general aviation project using a 28m glider wing employing fly-by-wire technology. Zach will share with us more on this project as well as other soaring adventures he has had. Also in this episode:
- Listener logbook (01:11): Christopher Stevenson returns with a new listener logbook as he chats with some west coast pilots about some recent winter flights they had.
- Sergio the Soaring Master is back (01:13:50) with us with a brand new segment called, Should I Stay or Should I Go. All this and more now on E107 of Soaring the Sky!
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Resources
- Nixus Project — The official Facebook page for the project which is the subject of this podcast.
- Soaring the Sky — From the website: “an aviation podcast all about the adventures of flying sailplanes. Join host Chuck Fulton as he talks with other aviators around the globe. You can find the show on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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