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Decarbonizing air transport : Jean-Christophe Lambert of Ascendance welcomes you on board the long-haul flight to cleaner connections

To begin , could you provide details of your career history and how you came to co-found Ascendance ? I ’ ve been working in and around aviation throughout my whole career . After spending almost eight years at Airbus , the last three years of which I led its E-Fan project , I left the business after the project was shelved . By this point , I ’ d seen the limitations of all-battery technologies when it came to its potential to decarbonize aviation and - along with my founding team who were also all at Airbus - made the bold decision to go all-in on hybridelectric technologies and create Ascendance .

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