At age 22, aerospace engineer Eric Shaw worked on some of the world's most powerful airplanes, yet learning to fly even the smallest one was out of reach. Just out of college, he could not afford civilian flight school and spent the next two years saving $12,000 to earn his private pilot's license. Shaw knew there had to be a better, less expensive way to train pilots. Now a graduate student at the MIT Sloan School of Management's Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program, Shaw joined the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AeroAstro) Certificate in Aerospace Innovation program to turn a years-long rumination into a viable solution. Along with fellow graduate students Gretel Gonzalez and Shaan Jagani, Shaw proposed training aspiring pilots on electric and hybrid planes. This approach reduces flight school expenses by up to 34 percent while shrinking the industry's carbon footprint. The trio shared their plan to create the Aeroelectric Flight Academy at the certificate...
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