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Divraj Jain retweeted
It's not just batteries. The entire tech stack is a huge tailwind
- autonomy
- motors
- power electronics
- sensors
- chips
- composites
There is a battery density and cost where eVTOL will suddenly and all at once 'make sense' economically (this is soon)
There will be cities that want to ban eVTOLs not from safety or noise but to protect property values -
A shitty commute is the number one moat in real estate
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Divraj Jain retweeted
🛸 Zipline launched drone delivery in Austin this morning.
@Zipline is private. It publishes no fleet count. But every aircraft it flies has to be on the U.S. registry, and the registry overwrites itself every day.
We keep every copy. Here’s what it shows:
3,009 Zipline aircraft registered today, up 110% since March.
432 more registration numbers already reserved. The next wave, in public view.
406 of 429 aircraft were on file before the @Uber deal was announced.
Meanwhile, valuation talk went from $7.6B to about $20B.
If you invest in autonomy, drones or logistics, this is the kind of signal Terminal is built to find.
Full post in the comments below
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top 10 fighters by useful sustained / supercruise speed:
mig-31bm — m2.35*
f-22 — m1.7–1.8
typhoon — m1.3–1.5
rafale — ~m1.4
su-57 — ~m1.3
j-20 — ~m1.2–1.4
f-35a — ~m1.2
gripen e — ~m1.1–1.2
su-35s — ~m1.1
f-15 — ~m1
*with afterburner
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people underestimate the compounding effect of battery densities
with even a conservative 3% a year 250 mph ++ could be feasible for short distances much sooner that you think for a 2 seater
couple that speed with increasing autonomy and your radius increases seamlessly unlocking new lifestyles
Look at how much further 30 minutes by flying car gets you than driving.
SF
00:00 – car
00:03 – 120 mph flying car
00:06 – 250 mph flying car
LA
00:18 – car
00:21 – 120 mph
00:25 – 250 mph
NYC
00:36 – car
00:39 – 120 mph
00:43 – 250 mph
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RT @levelsio: Just a day later and now Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship with residence and passport for $350,000
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which would you pick for hypothetical
bangalore -> sao paolo direct flight assuming similar cost ?
0%
17hr first subsonic
100%
7.5hr pre eco supersonic
4 votes • Final results
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Divraj Jain retweeted
Concorde's famous droop nose mechanism and a crosswind landing into RAF Brize Norton during post-crash test flights in 2001.
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at 3020ft most of the time now , weather is just a bonus
our first @p2pplane will cruise around 8000ft
i predict bangalore will
overtake bombay and likely delhi in financial metrics in 10-15 years based
on just the weather being cooler year around 😅. quality of life is already better in bangalore
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nice way to spend 30 billion really, even if blue origin is not as efficient
much better than a think tank or ngo
Blue Origin is great and if we had nothing to compare it with, we'd be incredibly impressed with what they built, having raised just $30B.
But let's just use BO to put SpaceX's capital efficiency into perspective;
— SPCX invented the orbital class reusable booster
— flew + landed it like 650 times
— built Starlink; 10M+ customers
— built Dragon; launched like 60 humans to the ISS
— got ~95% of the way to making a fully reusable Starship operational
— acquired xAI, positioning them to do Starmind
All of this on just $10B worth of private equity
Like what the fuck
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"I think travelers are becoming much more sophisticated about how they value a trip. The cheapest airfare isn’t necessarily the cheapest journey if it costs you hours getting to the airport, navigating the terminal, waiting for bags and then driving an hour in the opposite direction when you land."
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