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Vight
@vightaero
Making door-to-door flights as normal as driving. Starting with two-seat VTOLs for rural property owners and flight schools anywhere
SV, CA 🇺🇸 Katılım Eylül 2025
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I was talking to Packy about this. When flying yourself 100 or even 300 miles in an hour becomes fast, safe and easy, it upends which real estate is scarce and what is not.
The value of land is largely a function of proximity - how long does it take to get from where I live to where I need to be? And how many other people want to own that same land? That's been dictated by cars and the highway network for 70 years, creating suburban sprawl in the process.
New local frontiers will open up.
Packy McCormick@packyM
SCARCE ASSET SUPERCYCLE notboring.co/p/scarce-assets
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Spoke about how Vight started, what our vision is and why technology and regulations have not enabled door to door flight until now.
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A lot of engineers are skeptical about eVTOLs. They should be.
Air taxi companies are still not in market. They’ve been in development for up to 15 years with no paid services, despite the promises of a massive opportunity.
Here’s why they fundamentally struggled to get to market. Hint: it’s not the technology.
The real problem was that the air taxi industry was a terrible first market.
Startups should die on execution risk, but air taxi companies did the opposite. They stalled because of risks outside their control.
To win, air taxi companies needed many external factors to align. They had to clear a cost and time intensive regulatory path, persuade cities to allow frequent operations over populated areas, build enough ground infrastructure to support high-utilization service, and earn public trust in exactly the places where a failure would be least tolerated.
The economics were questionable from the start. It was not a market you could enter quickly, build trust, learn from real operations and then scale.
Certification risk amplified all of these hurdles.
A lot of these companies had hoped for a more legible Part 23-style path. Instead, powered-lift air taxis got pushed into bespoke special-class certification under 21.17(b). Even if Part 23 would still have been hard, this made it materially harder. Means of compliance became less standard, less reusable, and much more uncertain. That slowed iteration, increases conservatism, and drove up cost.
The certification path also pushed them toward a much harder vehicle.
A 3-ton vehicle is harder than just scaling up a 200 pound or 1 ton vehicle. The square-cube law does not care about your deck. Aero-structural and vibration problems get nastier. Hover efficiency gets punished by scale. Flight testing gets more expensive and more painful when things go wrong.
Air taxis tried to beat the final boss first. Urban mobility is a very hard problem for any aviation product to solve first. This is not how new category-defining products usually start. Tesla didn’t start with a mass market Model Y, the iPhone wasn’t trying to replace the laptop, and Nvidia’s early GPUs were not taking on CPUs head-first.
Electric propulsion, especially when distributed, is here to stay. Air taxis chose the wrong market and set of risks for the technology.
Early eVTOL companies helped prove real things and pushed the technology forward. But now there is finally a better wedge: a personal-use regulatory path that removes much of the infrastructure, permitting, and operational burden that hindered air taxis.
With MOSAIC, there's a compelling pathway for personal use. That creates a much cleaner way to build something people actually want, get it into service, learn from real use, and scale from there.
That’s what we’re all in on @vightaero.
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If you are still making your engineers use Drive instead of a repo for your company’s engineering work, idk what to say
Tsung Xu@tsungxu
Our airframe structures engineer doubled his productivity in his first week using Claude Code and Codex. He had zero terminal or agent experience two weeks ago, but learnt quickly and had several aha moments. Oh and he did that without knowing about skills, mcp vs cli, subagents or context pollution.
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Just optimized a variant of an aircraft concept for @vightaero in a fraction of the time.
So for context @BenBerry3D is a concept design wizard and he built a great concept sizing tool for us using Python. Our team's deep experience with sizing and building eVTOLs helped a lot.
I had Claude Code use this tool to run some manual sweeps with the concept variant, and then had it add this Python-based frontend.
I was sick of looking at static three view diagrams in the UI, and thought how hard could it be to add basic 3D renders? Turns out not very. These renders are low fidelity and not perfect but almost dimensionally accurate from the sizing tool. You can toggle or animate between hover and cruise.
Had Claude then call Nano Banana's API to create some marketing stills based on the render, not shown here. The renders can even be exported to CAD, though we'll be working with a designer on a true OML and inner mold line soon as the basis for engineering work.
Starting a new trade study with another configuration variant takes minutes because the scripts are written and workflows documented. Claude can add it to the optimizer script in one prompt.
Once our custom MDO tool is ready, we'll swap out the sizing tool and then run the MDO which has AVL in the loop for stability and aero, and structures modules for natural frequency analysis and more.
We even have scripts in development for alignment with (lightweight) self-certification requirements that can integrate with the BOM and other aircraft parameters, all as part of one integrated engineering system.
It's never been easier to test novel aircraft configurations and conceptual designs.
These designs are becoming more accurate sim versions of the real aircraft, and because they’re all in git repos, they become part of more automated processes that agents can speed up dramatically. Anyone building eVTOLs, drones or robots without agents will be at a huge disadvantage.
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Thanks for the shoutout @AtomsNotBits
Atoms Not Bits@AtomsNotBits
Daily Hard Tech Headlines: - @valinortech has raised a $54M Series A led by @friendsfamcap. The DC-based startup has already developed products enabling remote medical care, optics technology, unmanned systems charging, data ingestion software, and a UAS. The company is expanding and building out products in military infrastructure and construction, munition sustainment, and the maritime domain. Additional investors include General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Red Cell Partners, Narya, XYZ Venture Capital, and Fifth Down Capital. - The United States Space Force is exploring expansion of heavy and super-heavy launch capabilities at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the California coast. - @ulalaunch is targeting February 2 for the launch of its Vulcan Centaur rocket, which will support a national security mission. - Hanwha Defense USA, Inc. has partnered with @HavocAi_USV, and the two companies will "jointly develop 200-foot autonomous surface vessels (ASVs)." - @Saronic has partnered with HORNBECK OFFSHORE®, the maritime transportation firm. The partnership focuses on piloting Marauder, Saronic’s autonomous vessels, for a range of maritime services supporting the offshore energy industry, while also exploring additional critical technology integrations. - @Figure_robot has announced that its Figure 03 humanoid is now capable of wireless inductive charging. - @noxmetals, the Detroit-based metal supplier, has received its largest order to date. - Doosan, the global construction equipment producer, has launched the RX3, an autonomous compact loader used for a variety of material handling, grading, excavation, demolition, and other construction tasks. The loader can operate on major energy sources, including diesel, electric, and hydrogen, and runs on tracks to support different environments. - Vight, the Sunnyvale, California-based startup, built a subscale VTOL in 90 days. - Joby Aviation is expanding production capacity in Ohio by acquiring a 728,000-sq.-foot facility, which will enable them to double their eVTOL production by 2027. - Karman Space & Defense has acquired Seemann Composites and Material Science, which develops composite systems for U.S. Naval programs. - Frankenburg Technologies, the Estonian defense firm, has signed an MOU with Babcock International Group. The partnership will enable both firms to explore the potential development of a containerized system for attritable missiles for maritime C-UAS purposes. - The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has launched their LVMPD Skyports for drones as a first responder resource, along with a fusion watch center and a drone operations center. The drone operations center is currently handling just under 2,000 flights per month and has space for training and maintenance. The facility is powered by @SkydioHQ.
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As soon as I can I’m buying one and moving to the mountains
Tsung Xu@tsungxu
I'm hiring founding engineers for @vightaero We're working to make door-to-door flight as normal as driving. It's an insanely hard mission that will take decades. But it will also create an entirely new category of personal and autonomous transportation. This is an opportunity to make a mark at global scale. Engineering leaders from Kitty Hawk, Airbus Vahana and Boom are advising and helping us design the concept. Roles: - GNC - Structures / mechanical - Propulsion & avionics integration Strong fit if: - You've built eVTOLs, drones, other aircraft/robots and crashed, probably a lot. You might have nearly burned down a park or a garage along the way, like me. - You want massive ownership over work that matters, and don't want to be boxed into narrow lanes or ground down by bureaucracy. - You run toward the hardest engineering problems. We offer generous equity, competitive salary, and medical. These are in-person roles in the Bay Area. Reply, DM or email me at tsung@vightaero.com with proof of how obviously outstanding your work is. Think videos, photos and notes on how you persisted and solved problems with constraints. Don't send resumes.
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I'm hiring founding engineers for @vightaero
We're working to make door-to-door flight as normal as driving. It's an insanely hard mission that will take decades. But it will also create an entirely new category of personal and autonomous transportation. This is an opportunity to make a mark at global scale.
Engineering leaders from Kitty Hawk, Airbus Vahana and Boom are advising and helping us design the concept.
Roles:
- GNC
- Structures / mechanical
- Propulsion & avionics integration
Strong fit if:
- You've built eVTOLs, drones, other aircraft/robots and crashed, probably a lot. You might have nearly burned down a park or a garage along the way, like me.
- You want massive ownership over work that matters, and don't want to be boxed into narrow lanes or ground down by bureaucracy.
- You run toward the hardest engineering problems.
We offer generous equity, competitive salary, and medical. These are in-person roles in the Bay Area.
Reply, DM or email me at tsung@vightaero.com with proof of how obviously outstanding your work is. Think videos, photos and notes on how you persisted and solved problems with constraints. Don't send resumes.
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@ebenbayer @elonmusk @farzyness Just as the highway build out post WW2 enabled surburban living, widespread personal use of eVTOLs will make it easier to live further away from cities.
Except we do not need to build infrastructure through NIMBY communities that would never approve those highways today
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If there's not need to save money, what will we use to decide who gets what piece of land?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@RayDalio It is certainly a nice gesture of the Dells, but there will be no poverty in the future and so no need to save money. There will be universal high income.
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Flying to your lakehouse at over 100 mph and vertically landing at your dock
kache@yacineMTB
living like zuckerberg is honestly kind of sick. lake/river house living is really enjoyable
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@matt_slotnick @macbohannon you could, but the easier way is for the eVTOL to vertically land
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@macbohannon @vightaero do you parachute out when it gets to your stop?
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@vightaero This was the dream we were promised as young kids in the 70's and 80's.
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You will not read a more fascinating bio-tech story today. @thematthewosman and team are doing some incredible work across bio and AI corememory.com/p/exclusive-cr…
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