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@CaptFZ

Christian. American. Pilot. ATP on B747 & A320, A330, B737, E170, E190. LP. DoWC. Chess Player. 2X Founder in stealth mode🛰️🚀✈️🇺🇸

40.7127° N, 74.0059° W शामिल हुए Mart 2010
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#B747 DODc ops.🇺🇸
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The Figen
The Figen@TheFigen_·
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature: “Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.” The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
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AirFranz
AirFranz@CaptFZ·
5/ The facility floor is still running on what feels like binders!. We are not waiting for the market to come to us. We are building the infrastructure layer the next generation of space operations will run on, and we are starting where the urgency is highest and the funding is real. The legacy prime is dead. The Neo Prime rises. SP8CEAI, a Neo Prime is building the AI-native operating system for space payload processing. If you’re working in space infrastructure, defense launch operations, or dual-use commercial space - let’s talk.
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AirFranz@CaptFZ·
4/ The Dual-Use Beachhead — Why This Is Where We Win Here is the strategic reality of building in space infrastructure right now: The commercial market for payload processing is real but nascent. Anchor customers exist. The business case closes. But the capital cycle is long and the competitive dynamics are still forming. The defense market, by contrast, is urgent, funded, and actively seeking exactly the capability stack that commercial new space has built. Processing infrastructure is not a nice-to-have for the DOW. These compress national security launch cadence. The Space Force processes dozens of national security payloads soon to be thousands, per year across facilities that run on procedures written at a time where cell phones were the size of a brick!. An AI-native operating system for processing is, from a defense perspective, a force multiplier for launch readiness. That is a funded problem with an urgent customer. A system proven on national security payloads does not need a long sales cycle with a commercial customer. The pedigree closes the deal. The dual-use wedge is not a compromise between two markets. It is a sequencing strategy that uses defense urgency to build the reference architecture, and create the credibility that makes commercial expansion inevitable.
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AirFranz@CaptFZ·
Legacy Space Primes VS Neo Space Primes: An unhinged thread 🧵🚨⚠️ The old playbook for winning in space was simple: Win a cost-plus contract. Build a team of 4000 people. Spend 8 years and $3B. Deliver something that works. Repeat. That model built the GPS and IRS nav systems!(I've flown and navigated with BOTH of these myself). It built the Space Shuttle. It put rovers on Mars. It also created organizations so encrusted with process, overhead, and self-protective bureaucratic bullshit that they can no longer execute fast enough to matter. 1/ How Legacy Primes Actually Operate Legacy space primes - your Boeings, your Northrop Grummans, your Lockheed Martins are not bad companies. They are optimized for the wrong environment. Their execution model is built around compliance as the product. The deliverable isn’t the satellite or the launch vehicle. The deliverable is the documentation proving every step was done correctly. CDRs. PDRs. Test Readiness Reviews. Boards. More boards. A board to approve the agenda of the next board. Ask me how I know. We recently had a meeting with a legacy space prime, I kid you not: 17 VPs of God knows what on the call!. Every technical decision runs through a committee. Every schedule has a 40% margin baked in because the program manager who doesn’t pad the schedule gets burned, and the one who does gets promoted. Risk is not managed, it is diffused across so many layers of org charts that no single person is ever responsible for a failure. Speed is structurally impossible. Not because the engineers aren’t talented - they are exceptional - but because the incentive architecture punishes velocity and rewards coverage. When your contract is cost-plus, time spent is revenue earned. There is no forcing function. The result: programs that take a decade to reach orbit for billions of dollars, built by organizations that have institutionalized the assumption that this is simply how space works. I looked at those processes, got exposed to them, scratched my head and said SCREW THIS!!!. 2/ How Neo-Space Primes Operate: SpaceX didn’t beat legacy primes by hiring better engineers. They beat them by building a company where speed is the primary design constraint, and everything else, including elegance and process, is subordinate to that. One of my guys now on the team confirmed this. Starship has exploded on the pad multiple times. Each explosion is treated as a data point, not a failure. The program moves. Iterative hardware development cycles that legacy primes would gate behind 18 months of analysis are compressed into weeks. Manufacturing is vertically integrated so the supply chain can’t hold the schedule hostage. The org structure is flat enough that an engineer can escalate a critical finding to a decision-maker in hours, not quarters. Rocket Lab. Relativity. Ursa Major. ABL Space. The new generation of space companies shares this operating DNA: small teams, short cycles, hardware-forward, failure-tolerant execution. The contrast in output is staggering. SpaceX has conducted more orbital launches in a single year than some legacy primes have conducted in a decade. At a fraction of the cost per kilogram to orbit. The neo-space model doesn’t just move faster. It generates more learning per dollar. And in a technology development environment, learning velocity is the only moat that matters. 3/ The Government Is Watching - and Shifting For decades, the U.S. government tolerated legacy prime inefficiency because there was no alternative. You needed Boeing to build the rocket because no one else could. That calculus has fundamentally changed, and the government knows it. The DOW’s Commercial Space Integration Strategy, the NRO’s aggressive pivot toward commercial remote sensing, the Space Force’s commercial augmentation frameworks, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel portfolio expansion into space infrastructure - these are not isolated initiatives. Cont….👇🏼🧵
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Jesse Michels
Jesse Michels@AlchemyAmerican·
April 3rd 2026. Bob Lazar is back. Still the most hardcore testimony from a man who personally attempted to reverse engineer a UFO. New details will emerge vindicating his work at Area51. This movie, S4, shows you how the craft flies and takes you inside the facility. Next level.
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AirFranz@CaptFZ·
If yous love this country like we do, reach out!. If yous want to work on hard problems and not some bullshit SaaS only company, reach out!. If yous patriotic and love to show it, reach out! If yous love to build fast, fail faster, iterate and try again, reach out!. If yous want to work on an already validated problem, reach out!. If you've got a software, robotics, AI background, reach out!. If yous think you’re a fit after reading the above , reach out!. DMs open👇🏼🚀🇺🇸
Morgan Wyatt Khan@MorganWKhan

Looking for former SpaceX, Anduril, Palantir, xAI, NVIDIA software engineers looking to build something meaningful with robotics and AI. DMs are open.

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a16z@a16z·
Katherine Boyle says SpaceX’s legacy will be the thousands of companies that spawn from the school of Elon Musk: "What we've learned from the SpaceX story is that these kinds of companies can be built." "It is one of the most important companies in America. It's beloved by Americans across the country for what it's been able to achieve." "The legacy of SpaceX is going to be hundreds, if not thousands of companies—people who've gone to the school of Elon Musk, they've learned manufacturing and they've built companies, and built products in a way that they can take to new companies in manufacturing and defense, and drones and hypersonics—all of these other categories that SpaceX doesn't do." "We're incredibly excited about SpaceX. We're incredibly excited for what it's achieved for the American people and what it's going to lead to over the next 25 years." @KTmBoyle on @foxbusiness
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Redundancy.
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@andruyeung Great attitude to have in that situation!.
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Andrew Yeung
Andrew Yeung@andruyeung·
I was supposed to land at Newark last night but instead they kept our plane in a holding pattern for an hour before randomly diverting us to Washington DC at 1:33 am All while flying with through 54 mph winds with surreal turbulence. It was an exhilarating experience Apparently 22 other flights diverted to DC that early morning and every single hotel was sold out and train tickets to NYC were $500 They also lost my both my suitcases which added to the thrill Now I’m on a cramped 6 hour flix bus to New York. In total ~20 hours of commute time But this feels like a rite of passage of getting to New York City. It can’t be too easy; you have to work for it Because if you can make it to NYC you can make it anywhere I hope they find my luggage soon.
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