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Hunter Peterson, a 22-year-old voice actor and content creator known for a prior YouTube video in which he flew Spirit for 24 hours straight, posted a TikTok on May 2, 2026, hours after Spirit announced it was ceasing operations, proposing that if just 20% of the approximately 250 million American adults each contributed $45, roughly the price of a one-way Spirit ticket, the public could collectively purchase the airline and run it under a community-ownership model modeled after the Green Bay Packers and employee-owned grocery chain WinCo Foods, with one vote per member and profits distributed proportionally. Peterson’s website letsbuyspirit.com crashed under its initial traffic load, has since recorded $337 million in pledges from over 370,000 verified supporters, and set a target raise of $1.75 billion. As of May 9, Peterson announced he had secured a legal fund to formulate a formal bid for Spirit’s assets, with the endorsement of Spirit’s flight attendant union representing 5,500 workers, and an aviation mergers and acquisitions firm has described the plan as “doable.” The regulatory and financial barriers are substantial and experts have been consistent in flagging them. Spirit filed for bankruptcy twice, once in 2024 and once in 2025, accumulated approximately $8.1 billion in debt by August 2025, failed two separate merger attempts with Frontier in 2022 and JetBlue in 2024, and the bankruptcy court was told the estate does not have sufficient cash to even organize a formal auction of its own aircraft and engines, with lenders already repossessing the yellow planes. Securities attorneys quoted by Fortune noted that any public offering of this nature would require full SEC disclosure of Spirit’s financial history as a high-risk failed enterprise, and community-ownership structures for airlines face a regulatory framework that has no direct American precedent at commercial scale. Peterson himself has acknowledged publicly that “there’s no assurance that any of this will succeed.” The cultural momentum behind the campaign is arguably the more significant story than its likelihood of closing. Spirit carried 44 million passengers annually and served routes and price points that larger carriers have not filled since its closure, and the speed and scale of public response reflects a widespread frustration with airline industry consolidation, the absence of genuine budget options, and the perception that private equity captures the value of failing infrastructure rather than workers and communities. Peterson has stated he cannot accept public cash donations at this stage but is actively pursuing angel investors, with a public callout naming Mark Cuban, while an asset auction timeline creates urgency that may force a decision on the bid’s viability before the campaign’s organizational structure is legally ready to participate. submitted by /u/InterstellarKinetics to r/InterstellarKinetics [link] [comments]

OC. Took this photo in Portland, Oregon. My guess is Lufthansa. Thanks everyone! submitted by /u/markgravesdesign to r/aviation [link] [comments]

I’ve been a Spirit Airlines flight attendant for 14 years. And honestly, they’ve been a wonderful company to work for and it’s privately been my biggest highlight over the years. The staff and flight crews I’ve worked with have been the thing that’s kept me here. Externally, I often don’t discuss which airline I’m with - because I know the jokes. I know the complaints. I’ve heard them all. But here’s what I wish more people understood: Every year, I have watched people step onto a plane for the first time in their lives because of Spirit. I’ve had passengers cry because they could finally afford to see family. I’ve seen parents take their kids on trips they never thought were possible. That’s what affordable air travel actually means; it’s about accessibility for so many people who may have never been able to conceive of it otherwise. As you know, Spirit is at the edge of extinction. A final federal proposal was just submitted today, and this is the last window to influence what happens next. If airlines like Spirit disappear, ticket prices don’t stay low. They go up - Across the Board. Since I began at the company, I watched other airlines try to compete and model to stay competitive with the pricing structure that Spirit offers. But with Spirit gone, the people who get cut out aren’t frequent flyers—they’re everyday people. This isn’t theoretical. This is happening now. Thousands of jobs are on the line. Entire communities depend on this work. And millions of travelers depend on having at least one truly low-cost option. If you care about keeping travel accessible in this country, please act today: 📞 Call the White House Comment Line: (202) 793-8329 📞 Contact your state representatives Tell them you support affordable, competitive air travel and the workers behind it. This takes 2 minutes. Waiting means it’s decided without you. And I’m asking you for your help right now – so many of us who are employed by this airline also depend on you and your support. And if Spirit has ever made something possible for you—or someone you know—please share this so more people understand what’s at stake. submitted by /u/All_IN-All_OUT to r/flightattendants [link] [comments]

I’ve been a Spirit Airlines flight attendant for 14 years. And honestly, they’ve been a wonderful company to work for and it’s privately been my biggest highlight over the years. The staff and flight crews I’ve worked with have been the thing that’s kept me here. Externally, I often don’t discuss which airline I’m with - because I know the jokes. I know the complaints. I’ve heard them all. But here’s what I wish more people understood: Every year, I have watched people step onto a plane for the first time in their lives because of Spirit. I’ve had passengers cry because they could finally afford to see family. I’ve seen parents take their kids on trips they never thought were possible. That’s what affordable air travel actually means; it’s about accessibility for so many people who may have never been able to conceive of it otherwise. As you know, Spirit is at the edge of extinction. A final federal proposal was just submitted today, and this is the last window to influence what happens next. If airlines like Spirit disappear, ticket prices don’t stay low. They go up - Across the Board. Since I began at the company, I watched other airlines try to compete and model to stay competitive with the pricing structure that Spirit offers. But with Spirit gone, the people who get cut out aren’t frequent flyers—they’re everyday people. This isn’t theoretical. This is happening now. Thousands of jobs are on the line. Entire communities depend on this work. And millions of travelers depend on having at least one truly low-cost option. If you care about keeping travel accessible in this country, please act today: 📞 Call the White House Comment Line: (202) 793-8329 📞 Contact your state representatives Tell them you support affordable, competitive air travel and the workers behind it. This takes 2 minutes. Waiting means it’s decided without you. And I’m asking you for your help right now – so many of us who are employed by this airline also depend on you and your support. And if Spirit has ever made something possible for you—or someone you know—please share this so more people understand what’s at stake. We’re out of time. Please help and I promise that I will give out free drinks to anyone who is on my flight and let me know that they did so 💛 submitted by /u/All_IN-All_OUT to r/cheapflights [link] [comments]

Whenever the topic of water landings (ditching) comes up, everyone immediately points to the "Miracle on the Hudson" (the A320). However, landing on a relatively calm, flat river feels like a completely different physic problems compared to ditching in the open sea or ocean with massive swells, unpredictable wave troughs, and high winds. https://preview.redd.it/9ix4dv9x2yxg1.jpg?width=743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b65447aaeb3aa5335739bac189727e91abc9ee8 I know modern airliners have a "Ditching Button" to seal the outflow valves to keep the plane afloat longer, but I'm really curious about the actual airframes and aerodynamics. For the pilots and aviation engineers here: Is an open-ocean ditching realistically survivable for a large passenger jet, or is the ocean swell just too violent for the airframe to handle without breaking apart? Has a large civil jet ever successfully ditched in the open sea? From an engineering standpoint, which modern civil aircraft are theoretically the "best" at ditching? Does a low-wing aircraft (like a 737 or A320) perform better because the wings act as pontoons to keep the fuselage above water, or do the under-wing mounted engine act as scoops that would violently rip the wings off when hitting a wave? Do you know if manufacturers actually simulate open-ocean swells during certification, or is the certification mostly based on calm-water events? submitted by /u/Wooden-Syrup-8708 to r/aviation [link] [comments]

Hi all, I’m a very big guy (6’5” 400) and I know that I need extra space for flights. I used to love flying Southwest with their very generous extra seat policy, but that has gone away with their new business model. So now I just buy two seats no matter who I fly with. Southwest’s old policy was an exception in the industry so I don’t expect to get a refund for any extra seat that I purchase. I have flown Delta on two trips in the last month and a half and on both trips (8 flights in total) I had to fly from my local regional airport to Atlanta and then to my destination. This meant that half of my flights were on standard narrow body jets (a320/737) and the other half were on extremely tiny jets (CRJ900/E175). On all eight of my flights, my extra seat was given away. I called the airline for clarification on how I should purchase the tickets before I went on my first trip to avoid this exact scenario. I made sure to book a ticket that allowed me to select my seat, as opposed to it being assigned at the gate. I was told to put one ticket under my name and one ticket under my exact name, but with, “EXST” as the middle name. I did this, I scanned my tickets both times at the gate and on each flight my extra ticket was given to someone who was on the standby list. It got to the point where I would warn gate agents as soon as I got to the gate that I had an extra seat and that the extra seat had been given away before and I was really worried about it because it’s so embarrassing. And without fail 30 minutes later, I would find myself looking up at someone standing in my row, telling me that they had the seat next to me that I had paid for. One of the flights on the E175 I was able to squeeze next to the person flying standby and they didn’t mind being uncomfortable for the 45 minute flight to Atlanta. On one of the flights, the flight attendants were able to find other seats due to a missed connection and I got moved around. On two flights I was sat next to a chair that had been broken and was out of commission and not the ones I had paid to select. But on 4 flights, I had to tell the person who had just been told they were getting a seat on standby that they actually were actually going to have to stay in the airport. And it wasn’t a comfort thing for me either, especially on the CRJ there’s just no physical way someone’s getting in a seat next to me. Which is why I paid for the tickets. My refund requests have all been rejected, and Delta has pushed back significantly anytime I reached out to them about it. My traveling is done, I got to my destinations, but I was really embarrassed, and I’m dreading flying again. Is there anything I can do in the future to prevent this kind of thing from happening? I really felt like I went way out of my way multiple times to make it easier for everybody it didn’t help at all. And does anyone have any tips for trying to get at least a partial refund? If they don’t want to refund the ones where they moved me around or sent someone back off the plane that’s fine, but I do feel like I should get one for the leg where I squeezed next to someone who was on standby. I essentially paid for their ticket. Thank you and sorry for the long post! submitted by /u/X-cessiveBandit to r/delta [link] [comments]

Ballpark of 250+ models. 1/400 scale submitted by /u/Glum-Mud-1669 to r/Collections [link] [comments]

I am having a hard time deciding which one would be perfect for airliner models. I really want that glossy effect seen on real aircrafts so I decided to go with Glossy Photopaper, but almost all the guides I'm seeing doesn't mention anything about using photopaper, most places recommend using 180gsm normal paper. The only issues I had while using photopaaper previously was that the glue stains are impossible to remove so you gotta be extremely careful not to use excessive glue, also I'm not sure whether the 200gsm photopaper can handle tight curves especially in the nose region, I want everything to look shiny and flush. So before buying a pack of photopaper (the model is 22 pages long), I made a sample of the vertical stabilizer on glossy photopaper and on normal cardstock. And the difference is huge both in the print quality and how much it reassemble the shine on a real aircraft. So before ordering a bulk quantity of photopaper, I want the experts opinion on this. What do u guys think ? submitted by /u/Glittering_Pin8232 to r/IndianPapercrafters [link] [comments]

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I'm more of a railfan so I spend more of my free time learning about train models. But, I'm just trying something new and I'm curious as to what this Southwest Airlines plane was. submitted by /u/Full-Length6966 to r/airplanes [link] [comments]

More than a decade after introducing in-flight Wi-Fi, airlines are turning to the next wave of sky-high connectivity. Airlines are tapping into satellite technology to make in-flight internet faster, harnessing the power of low Earth orbit satellites from Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper, now officially called Leo. Several of the nation’s largest carriers have announced plans or expressed interest in connecting with one of the low Earth orbit satellite providers, with three carriers intending to roll out the service across their fleet in 2026 or 2027. United and Alaska have chosen Starlink. Budget airline JetBlue has inked a deal with Amazon. American is reportedly in talks with the Amazon team, while Delta tested Starlink’s satellite technology three years ago without any commitments. Southwest is launching faster Wi-Fi through a partnership with T-Mobile, but hasn’t commented on the latest satellite technology. On Monday, Alaska Airlines said it had launched its first passenger flights with Starlink-enabled Wi-Fi, after completing installation of the new system on four Embraer E175 regional jets. The new technology should speed up internet service for passengers in the air, with less lag time while watching movies, scrolling social media or sending emails. With the new service, passengers could even make video calls, but that’s still frowned upon. Put simply, “using Starlink on an airplane is basically the same as using internet on the ground,” said Todd Traynor-Corey, Alaska’s vice president of guest products and experiences. Alaska Air Group, which includes the namesake carrier, Hawaiian Airlines, regional carrier Horizon Air and subsidiary McGee Air Services, announced in August it was joining with T-Mobile to update its Wi-Fi system to use Starlink across its fleet, with plans to complete installation by 2027. Hawaiian Airlines, which Alaska acquired last year, was at the forefront of the new satellite wave. It was the first major carrier to use Starlink’s system on its Airbus fleet last year. United came next when it introduced Starlink on a regional jet in May and its mainline fleet in October. United said it plans to install Starlink systems on up to 15 Boeing 737-800 jets each month. Alaska had expected to complete its first Starlink installation in 2026 but sped up the rollout after receiving certification from the Federal Aviation Administration faster than expected, Traynor-Corey said. It will begin installing Starlink systems on its 737 fleet next year. Airlines need separate FAA approval for the Wi-Fi systems on each plane model and variant, Traynor-Corey said. For example, an Embraer 175 operated by SkyWest may be slightly different from the same plane operated by Horizon, he said. The installation process is mostly about hardware, Traynor-Corey said. Alaska will remove or modify existing hardware, including gear that looks like flat boxes sitting on top of the fuselage, and install new Starlink antennas, equipment and wiring. The equipment doesn’t affect the plane’s flight controls or other systems. He declined to share how much the installations would cost but said Alaska is investing significantly in the project. Right now, aircraft connect to the internet either through ground equipment or geostationary satellites, which are much deeper in space than low Earth orbit satellites. Tapping into low Earth orbit satellites speeds up internet connection because data doesn’t have to travel as far. Geostationary satellites orbit more than 22,300 miles above Earth, while Amazon’s Leo satellites orbit between 367 and 391 miles above the planet, Amazon said in a blog post on its website. That shorter distance translates to lower latency and more reliable service. The low Earth orbit satellite constellations also mean aircraft antennas won’t have to spend as much time searching for a satellite to beam data to and from, Traynor-Corey said. Amazon and Starlink are competing to win the low Earth orbit satellite market to improve broadband access not just in the air, but on the ground. Both companies say their satellite constellations will help expand internet connectivity to rural areas that struggle to receive reliable service. Starlink has about 9,000 satellites in orbit, while Amazon’s Leo has about 150. Leo plans to launch another 27 satellites this month. Both companies are building their space ventures in Seattle’s backyard. Starlink produces its satellites in Redmond and Woodinville. Amazon Leo has a research and development facility in Redmond, a logistics hub in Everett and a manufacturing facility in Kirkland. JetBlue was the first airline to sign a deal with Amazon’s Leo in September, with plans to integrate its internet service into the entire fleet in 2027. Last week, American Airline’s CEO Robert Isom told Bloomberg the airline was in talks with Amazon’s satellite division. As airlines speed up internet service, they’re also dropping the fee, which ranges from $8 a flight to more than $30. Most airlines that offer free internet require travelers to join the airline’s loyalty program. submitted by /u/Only-Nothing4595 to r/AlaskaAirlines [link] [comments]

Avelo has been running ICE air flights since May to 3rd party countries. The City of New Haven once celebrated Avelo but no more. After months of boycotts against Avelo nationwide, the tide is starting to turn. This comes a month after Avelo has had to start planning closure of its west coast sector. City Boycotts Avelo; PRU Cuts Ties With Avelo As Sponsor submitted by /u/sarcodiotheca to r/Connecticut [link] [comments]

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Here we go again boys. Jeju Airlines may ground their fleet if this continues. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-12-30/national/socialAffairs/Second-Jeju-Air-plane-experiences-landing-gear-malfunction-same-Boeing-model-involved/2211567 submitted by /u/PassportBrosCandids to r/wallstreetbets [link] [comments]

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I stabilized the motion of the plane in the satellite video and aligned the Airliner_03 model from Video Copilot’s JetStrike to it. It’s a match. Stabilized satellite plane compared to Video Copilot’s JetStrike Airliner_03 The VFX artist who created the MH370 videos obviously added several effects and adjustments to the image, and he may have scaled the model on the Y axis, but the features of this texture are clear in the video. Airliner_03 Things to pay attention to: The blue bottom of the fuselage matches. The “satellite” video is not a thermal image. The top of the plane would not be significantly hotter than the bottom at night, and the bottom of the fuselage would not be colder than the water. What the satellite video shows is a plane with a white top and a blue bottom. The blue-gray area above the wing matches. This is especially noticeable at the 4x and 8x speeds. The light blue tail fin almost disappears when the background image is light blue. This explains the "missing tail fin" at the beginning of the video. Color adjustment on the model. Notice the area above the wing and the light blue tail fin. submitted by /u/atadams to r/AirlinerAbduction2014 [link] [comments]

Hello, I am terrible with creating titles and such, and I hope this is okay to post here. I do enjoy reading the posts here in this subreddit. I am also very bad at writing an introduction and everything may be unorganized, so I apologize in advance. I'm KMHT_Spotter, currently 25 Male, very introverted, and I was diagnosed when I was either 2 or 3 (I think) along with ADHD. Having both Autism and ADHD is not an ideal combination to have, but I have both. I am also blind (Nearsightedness) and require glasses to see. It's hard to describe my Autistic traits, but I can drive a car (Both Auto and Manual) and do things on my own most of the time without help. One thing I can say is that I love helping others in need. I am a slow learner and prefer to learn hands-on. Often, it can take weeks or even years for me to finally understand something. I have a very hard time telling social cues, and telling if a person is serious or not. I also don't do well in Social settings, and I do not do well when people yell at me, as the yelling overwhelms me to the point where I break down crying. Almost always I keep to myself, bottling up my feelings most of the time, and feel lonely almost always. I rarely ask for help and try to find ways to do things on my own. I play lots of games, a few Competitive games like Rocket League, but I somehow cannot progress any further which causes me to become very upset and I end up quitting after the first match when I lose because my gameplay lacks game sense. In some games, I can play fantastic matches, but I end up losing all the time and I get mad playing. I feel like my mental handicap is what is not allowing me to progress from Platinum 1 to a higher rank, and I have even been demoted back to Gold 2, which I become very upset over. My biggest special interest is in the field of Aviation. I have done so much research that I know the majority of all Commercial Airliners (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, ect), Airlines/Airline codes (e.g YX = Republic Airways), Airport codes (Majority US: e.g = KTXK = Texarkana Regional Airport), and a decent number of Military aircraft (e.g E-2 Hawkeye). I even know a few historic airlines as well, like Pan American Airways, TWA Airlines, Midwest Airlines, etc., and the airports associated with them (Such as how Pan Am is HQ in both MIA and JFK). I have a giant collection of Model airplanes, almost all Commercial Airliners, and the majority of Gemini Jets and NG models. I enjoy traveling, especially on planes. the first time I truly flew on my own was down to Ft. Lauderdale, FL in October 2021, to fly on Spirit Airline's first Inaugural flight back home, and ever since then, I have done a total of 3 Inaugural Flights (Two on Avelo airlines, and one recently on Breeze) and hopefully my fourth on Sun Country Airlines when they begin service from MSP to MHT in August. My parents heavily dislike my desire to travel and do everything to stop me from flying. It's gotten to the point where their negativity has made me hesitate to book flights that I want to do without feeling reprimanded by my parents Unless I am booking flights when they want to go somewhere, which rarely happens. The farthest I've traveled alone was to Hawaii, which I loved so much, and want to do again. As an Adult with Autism, I am struggling mentally with the acceptance that I am getting older. My mentality is that of a teenager, and I mentally do things that are considered childish and foolish, and my parents think that because I am an Adult I should be like one, so I often mask a lot, and in the end, it is causing me so much stress and sadness that I have never felt more alone than ever. I do go to Online school, but I am struggling to keep up which is causing me to have a burnout that lasts me weeks to months on end, which kills my motivation to continue doing online coursework, which impacts my grades and GPA negatively. It's hard to talk to anyone about what I am feeling because I feel like no one will listen to me, so as I mentioned before, I just keep to myself. I wish there were programs for Adults with Autism, like how I had when I was growing up, with all the resources to help me succeed in academics and such. Anyway, I hope this post is acceptable. I hope I'm not breaking any rules here, as I did read them. Even typing this I feel like I am doing something wrong. If you have any questions, do let me know below. I'll try to get to them when I have the time. submitted by /u/KMHT_Spotter to r/autism [link] [comments]

Bit of a ramble here but would love to see some discussion on these points. Tldr; CHO is doubling in size, what routes would you imagine filling this new capacity?✈️✈️✈️ It was buried in the article about Melinda Crawford’s retirement a while back, but there are plans to double the size of CHO’s terminal and build out new parking structures over the next six years. Despite the lack of publicly available plans, it sounds like we’d move up to nine gates (hopefully some with jet bridges🤞) with expanded TSA screening and bag belts. It seems like travel through CHO is slowly rebounding after Covid, with 543k passengers served this past fiscal year compared to 272k in FY21 (peak-pandemic) and 752k in FY19 (pre-pandemic). The decade before Covid saw regular passenger growth, around 10% YOY, so with the exception of Covid we were already trending upwards. The newly appointed CEO, Jason Burch, apparently has a good track record of expanding passenger service to Charlottesville, so it will be interesting to see how he plans to fill out all this new capacity in the next decade and as travel continues to rebound. For reference, some developments in the past couple years: American stops service to Philly and O’Hare, United stops service to O’Hare due to Covid American resumes service to Philly, United resumes service to O’Hare following pandemic (still no AAL service on the popular O’Hare route) Avelo comes and goes with service to Orlando, stopping due to low demand (no lessons learned from Allegiant in 2014…) American will end service to Philly this week due to low demand👀 CHO’s most popular routes are American service to Charlotte and Delta service to Atlanta. Should be noted that Delta is the only mainline carrier to serve Charlottesville (the rest use regional brands like American Eagle and United Express), but this could change as travel rebounds and the facility is upgraded to support larger aircraft. The question is how big is CHO hoping to get? Crawford herself said we’d never become a hub (good), but we are nevertheless an important destination with UVA here and with the comparatively sparse options in Harrisonburg and Lynchburg. On that note, how will Manassas’ plans to start passenger service at their airfield impact demand here? So what about new routes then? Airlines are focusing on buying larger aircraft as it becomes clear that regional jets are not as cost efficient. CHO’s expansion should accommodate this, and once again this could lead to more mainline service in Cville. That also expands the radius to which we can fly. Obviously we’re too small a city to have major airlines operating direct flights to say, LA or San Francisco (maybe a smaller carrier like Breeze could do this a few times a week), but personally I’d love to see expanded service to the major mid-west hubs like Denver, Dallas, or Minneapolis. It would also be nice to have access to at least one of the international hubs in New York. United operates out of Newark and Delta/American out of JFK. Heck, even JetBlue service to Boston would be a good option now that their codeshare with American is over. The cities mentioned in this paragraph are all pretty high up on the Origin-Destination chart for CHO, so adding direct service would serve to remove at least one stop to those hubs and points beyond. To me, the most obvious route addition right now is Dallas-Ft Worth—it’s American’s largest hub, and (hate to bring this up) is home to new ACC member SMU, therefore it will be an important stopover/destination for UVA fans/athletes/etc headed there or to the Bay Area for various obligations, and vice versa. Assuming the ACC remains whole of course. Adding these routes might also boost CHO’s share of demand in Central VA compared to LYH and maybe even Roanoke (which is pretty similar to CHO currently, but slightly larger), meaning the investment in our airport would be well-placed. CHO seems very much to fit into the hub/spoke model. We’re just not big enough to be a point-to-point airport, which is why Allegiant and Avelo failed. This would likely be the case for Southwest if they ever tried to serve CHO. Breeze *maybe* could work here because they fly smaller planes than the others, which is a better fit for our level of demand. But otherwise, you’re always gonna fly through a hub out of Cville, and adding more hub options seems to be where we’re headed. One last note on the question of larger airframes. American operates 6 flights to Charlotte daily (the max allowable). If they were to switch to main line service/larger planes, that frequency would likely decrease as more pax can be seated per trip. How do we feel about this? Is there a strong preference for having more options for departure/arrival times vs having expanded options for which hub to fly through? submitted by /u/pylfr to r/Charlottesville [link] [comments]

So basically I was on a economy flight with ryanair and there was this woman in her 20’s, (honestly looked like a regular russian insta model, big lips/botox) waiting at the gate, then someone working at the airport wearing yellow vest came and escorted her down to a different level on the elevator. I think, oh she must have been at the wrong gate. Later as im waiting to board, this same woman is brought to the front of everyone else at my gate with another airport worker. They board her first and she’s first to sit on the plane. After landing, this woman stays on the plane last, and is later escorted by someone into the airport. No handcuffs, no restraining action or anything. Just always escorted to and from the plane. Who was this person? Keep in mind the airport personnel were not armed security or anything like that. I am just so curious. EDIT: Would like to add that she was walking on her own, no physical disability whatsoever. submitted by /u/Healthy_Spare_7137 to r/NoStupidQuestions [link] [comments]

I've decided to create a new post that brings together a comprehensive overview of insights gathered from various Reddit discussions on the Airliner videos. My goal is to continuously update the post with any new information, findings, or analyses that come to light. In light of the suggestion to create a new post, I'd like to share the original comment that sparked this idea: (Original comment) MH370 Flight: A Fact-Based Timeline March 8, 2014 00:42 MYT: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departs from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia, en route to Beijing Capital International Airport in China, carrying 239 passengers and crew members. (around 6 hours flight) 01:19 MYT: The last voice communication from the cockpit is made, with the words "Good night, Malaysian three-seven-zero." 01:21 MYT: The position symbol of Flight 370 disappears from KL ACC radar, indicating the aircraft's transponder is no longer functioning. -- [Location] --The plane changes its course towards the west-- 02:22 MYT: The last primary radar contact is made by the Malaysian military. -- [Last confirmed location] --plane continues to fly for 6 hours--- (Plane was scheduled to land at Beijing airport at 06:30 MYT). 08:19 MYT: Last automatic satellite communication between the aircraft and Inmarsat's satellite communications network. --- Sometime between 08:19 MYT and 09:15 MYT the plane disappears--- 09:15 MYT: The aircraft does not respond to an hourly, automated handshake attempt. Possible trajectories after the plane stopped responding: Some possible trajectories were estimated after the last known location which was at 02:22 MYT, These trajectories were calculated based on the Inmarsat pings which occurred until 08:19 MYT, the only information these pings provide is the distance between the plane and the satellite. Meaning that additional data and estimates were used for a possible trajectory of the plane. The generally accepted flight trajectory is not 100% accurate, since is based on plane-satellite distance and they just did some calculations for possible routes based on the Inmarsat pings: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/why-the-official-explanation-of-mh370s-demise-doesnt-hold-up/361826/) Simplified graphical representation of the aforementioned details: -- ​ Visual Aid ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Airliner videos: Videos: Video 1 - FLIR Footage: https://youtu.be/bpiFfp-0abI?t=68 Video 2 - Satellite Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS9uL3Omg7o Side-by-side comparison of both videos: https://imgur.com/p7NMOTX Original video via Wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20140525100932/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ok1A1fSzxY Video analysis Clouds movement: The clouds actually move, and it is not a simple horizontal / vertical movement some might expect from a 3d rendered scene object. The clouds are moving realistically: ​ Cloud realistic movement https://imgur.com/a/OsysF20 Interesting post from a 3D VFX artist about the difficulty of creating 3d realistic movement clouds: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15lvtak/a_3d_artists_take_on_the_airliner_footage/ Clouds shows accurate illumination from the flash: Another proof of this not a static background, is the clouds are affected by the lighting flash: [Cloud Illumination Demonstration] Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15ld2kp/airliner_video_shows_very_accurate_cloud/ Matching Plane Identity: Indisputable Match - Plane depicted corresponds precisely to the Boeing 777-200ER model, akin to the MH370 aircraft: ​ Plane Identity Comparison Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15l7glq/airliner_video_might_be_fake_but_it_does_line_up/ Drone depiction: FLIR source appears to be a General Atomics MQ-1C Grey Eagle with 2 additional camera sensors under the wings. Some of the credibility questions on the reported footage are that it cannot be from underneath the nose, as the camera placement appears on MQ-1L platforms. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15lcrto/flir_is_not_a_mq1l_it_is_instead_a_mq1c_with_2/ ​ Satellite video location: This is the location of the alleged satellite video, based on the GPS coordinates appearing at the bottom of the video:[Location] GPS coordinates appearing in the video: 8.834301, 93.19492 The distance between the MH370 flight last known location and the satellite video location is around 340 miles. Around 6-7 hours passed between the two, a theory could be that the plane was flying in circles for 6 hours or was just flying without a defined flight course. ​ https://preview.redd.it/a22j9na6ehhb1.jpg?width=724&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2de5028d6232c4443f1d8ee8bad5be657a9a1ae8 Alternative satellite video location: A user pointed out that the GPS coordinates could also be: -8.834301, 93.19492 Yielding a different location for the video, 1100 miles south of last known plane location: [Alt. location] ​ Satellite angle shot: According to the satellite video data from the bottom of the video, the source of this footage is most likely Satellite NRO L-32, launched in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-223 Alternative proposed satellites are: NROL-22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-184 NROL-23 - Used for oceanic surveillance. Some redditors have asserted that the satellite footage should depict an overhead perspective. However, it's worth noting that not all satellite imagery provides a directly top-down view. In situations where the satellite's position isn't precisely directly above the target, the resulting shots might exhibit a slanted angle. For clarification, consider the following example: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/phot-04.html Another examples of satellite footage, this time from an overhead angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKNAY5ELUZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW1-ZWencvA Thermal Coloring: Some people have suggested that the colors presented in the thermal imagery are atypical for military footage. However, it's important to understand that the thermal coloring represents a configurable parameter for heat vision cameras. This feature is standard and can be adjusted even after the recording has been made. https://www.atncorp.com/blog/black-and-white-thermal-imaging-vs-color-palettes-in-heat-vision-cameras Round UFOs claim (grain of salt, dubious source): This news article claims that rounded UFOs were detected in the vicinity of the MH370 flight before disappearing: The first peculiarity is seen in the lower left of the screen. A round object appears in the vicinity of Flight 370 (and amid several others), which the radar does not automatically "read" as airplane. Suddenly, this round object take the form of a "plane" on the radar screen and accelerates at a rate of speed that must be at least five times the speed of the surrounding planes, heading eastward, over the South China Sea - and just as suddenly the object stops and appears to hover in place." https://www.ibtimes.com.au/mh370-radar-detected-ufo-jet-goes-missing-malaysian-air-force-head-reportedly-confirms-sightings ​ Three Unidentified objects detected by chinese military satellites: Interesting article about unidentified objects near the flight path: https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellites-searching-malaysia-airliner-spot-large-objects/story?id=22872167 But debris was found: Interestingly, it should be noted that debris associated with the MH370 flight was discovered. Taking into account numerous abduction narratives, if one were to entertain the notion that the plane was taken by UFOs, it is conceivable that it was subsequently returned to a different location, but maybe just the plane was returned. And even if the plane was not returned and was indeed abducted and caught on camera by the military, there is a high chance that some fake debris would have been planted. Some articles with doubts about the veracity of the debris: https://jeffwise.net/2016/04/14/mh370-debris-was-planted-ineptly/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1155157/mh370-news-missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-flight-370-indian-ocean-debris-russia-spt https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/new-mh370-conspiracy-was-mozambique-debris-planted/news-story/404835953f5ab82040a0b60f152350a4 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-crash-theories-idUKKCN0QB0E420150806 ​ Theory of pilot Zaharie crashing the plane into the ocean: This theory is based on the Flight simulator data obtained from the pilot home's computer, this article says: "..there was a very odd route which ran up the Strait of Malacca, turned south after passing Sumatra, and then flew straight down into the Southern Indian Ocean before terminating in the vicinity of the seventh arc." [Article] There is actually several simulated flight paths the pilot played on the simulator: "it could just mean Captain Shah was practising emergency landings on his home flight sim." [Article] Analysis of the pilot simulator data: https://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2017/10/12/simulator-data-from-computer-of-mh370-captain-part-1/ This Guardian article says: "It is not known whether the simulation was made by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, but the simulator was in his home. " "The ATSB said confirmation of the plotted course did not prove theories that the captain planned a deliberate murder-suicide. " The Guardian article Pilot background: "Zaharie was 53 years old and became a pilot with Malaysian Airlines in 1981, 33 years before MH370 went missing. He’d flown for a total of 18,423 hours and his co-workers considered him one of the best captains the airline had." In my opinion: If the pilot wanted to crash the plane, why fly the plane for 7 hours after turning off its transponder? Why change his planned route drastically? ​ An elaborate hoax: The aircraft's disappearance took place on March 8, and the video in question was first posted on May 19. The individuals behind this potential hoax had a span of 72 days to develop these videos. Their process involved: Crafting two photorealistic videos depicting the same scenario from distinct viewpoints, each incorporating diverse effects and frames per second (FPS). This could be achievable if utilizing a 3D-rendered environment. Compiling GPS data and classified satellite insights to ensure alignment with the MH370 flight specifics. Creating lifelike cloud animations within the rendered scenes, a technically challenging task. Unlike common 3D-rendered clouds, these clouds exhibit realistic shape changes influenced by wind. Capturing the video through filming a screen. If this is a leaked video, this method could be the most plausible means to avoid obtaining the original classified footage, a potentially more intricate endeavor. Designing software capable of manipulating the mouse pointer to dynamically alter GPS coordinates while panning across the screen, subsequently capturing the changes. This intricate fabrication process suggests a meticulous endeavor, prompting us to consider its implications with a nuanced perspective. The disappearing effect is crappy in the thermal video: The teleport effect in the thermal video doesn't look very good, and I agree with that view. Considering the amount of work put into making this complicated hoax, you'd think they would have tried harder to make the disappearing part look more believable. I think this actually makes the video a bit more believable. It makes you wonder what this kind of technology really looks like. Additionally, remember how Guillermo del Toro described his UFO encounter. “It was so crappy", and it was ‘horribly designed’. This is because were are used to slick and cool designs on Sci-Fi TV shows an movies. But we never really encountered a Sci-Fi element in real life. We have no idea how it might look. ​ Some common questions: "Why are military drones and satellites observed in the vicinity of the plane?" The possibility of drones and satellites being in proximity is reasonable due to the aircraft's extended flight duration of 6 hours after going off radar. This timeframe allows ample opportunity for their deployment. Additionally, a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia Island, approximately 2000 miles from the location depicted in the satellite video, could be relevant. Apparently there were also two major training missions going on in the area, operation Cobra Gold and operations Cope Tiger, involving joint US-Indo-Pacific military exercises. ​ "Why does the satellite footage show daylight when the plane lost contact at 02:20 AM?" It's important to consider that the final Inmarsat ping occurred at 08:19 MYT. This indicates that the aircraft was still in flight at that time, transitioning into the daytime hours. This confirms a duration of approximately 7 hours of flight after the transponder was turned off at 1:21 AM. Personal thoughts: After seeing many fake computer-generated images before, one thing that usually stands out is a noticeable oddness that makes you doubt them right away. But this specific case is different. For me, a gut feeling makes me think these videos are real. You may say this video is "Too crazy to be true". Folks, we are already into crazy territory. Remember a guy named David Grusch? claiming we have non-human craft and non-human bodies for 90 years? Yeah, nothing sounds so crazy anymore. ​ Edit: The mystery continues: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15niihi/mh370_airliner_videos_a_piece_of_the_puzzle/ How&Whys article on this post: https://www.howandwhys.com/connection-between-airline-footage-with-ufos-malaysia-airlines-mh370/ submitted by /u/aryelbcn to r/UFOs [link] [comments]

Honestly, this DD requires a lot of critical thinking. If that’s not your jam, please enjoy this cartoon of Alex Karp crushing the competition, then scroll down to the bottom of the DD where you’ll find my plan for the end of my lockup plus a few diamond emojiis, a couple of hand emojiis and a bunch of vacuum optimized transportation device emojiis. (photo credit for the Karptoon goes to ex-Palantir designer u/gottacroe and my wife u/LindsayatAdaDiamonds photoshopping in the Salesforce Einstein) Lots of words below, so here’s the TL;DRs, Table of Contents, a self dox, and position disclosure before my DD. TL;DR #1: After watching Demo Day twice, I am blown away at how much Palantir’s products have matured in the last 6 years since I left Palantir. I find the new UX far superior to offerings from GOOG, MSFT, and CRM. Apollo is absolutely incredible, and it’s going where no clouds have gone before… from Humvees to nuclear submarines. Lastly, it is clear to me that PLTR has invested heavily in best-of-class administrative tools to improve the speed to deploy Palantir. Bottom line: I fully understand why IBM gave up fighting Palantir and is now selling Palantir Foundry to IBM clients. PLTR when I left in 2015 versus the Palantir I saw on Demo Day: You've come a long way baby. _______ TL;DR #2: IBM just surrendered to PLTR. In the words of POTUS, this is a… Big. Fucking. Deal. To put it politely, IBM and Palantir don’t have a very good past relationship. So the fact that IBM is now pushing Foundry means one thing: Foundry is so unfuckwithable that IBM was losing numerous contracts to Foundry-wielding competitors and IBM had no choice but to swallow their pride and cut a deal with Papa Karp. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then they surrender to you and sign a deal to slang Foundry to thousands of clients in 180 countries. Then they send your shareholders tendies for decades. ________ TL;DR #3: Regardless of how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ the 2020 earnings are tomorrow, I find the news from early 2021 to be an incredibly strong signal pointing to an eventual $250B+ market cap for Palantir – BP renewing their enterprise deal, Rio Tinto and PG&E signing a new enterprise deals, AT&T aggressively hiring for Palantir skills, and 2,500 IBMers now pushing Foundry to clients all over the world, etc. IE the tea leaves I'm reading point to strong growth in 2021 and beyond. It's also worth mentioning that many of the new commercial clients have some of the most difficult and complex supply chains in the world. If they’re in, I’m in. ________ TL;DR #4: Eventually, institutional traders will comprehend the immense long-term value of Planeteer Planter Palantir and the stock will join the PFAANG club (though I vote that we rename it the FAAPNG club). ________ Table of Contents: Praise & Constructive Criticism for Demo Day Why Palantir is a Diamond Fisted Iron Man Suit The True ROI of Palantir Muthafuckin’ Clouds in Nuclear Submarines Does it Matter that Palantir Needs FDEs at Deployments? Should you YOLO on PLTR? My Appreciation for the Palantir Team Musings on Earnings and Unlocking ________ Because there are so many shills, pumpers, and bullshiters on WSB these days, I’ll self dox myself. I’m Jason Payne. I joined Palantir in early 2007, when it was a few dozen geeks with big dreams, and left in 2015 to become the CEO of Ada Diamonds (hence my username). I joined Reddit to do an official AMA on laboratory-grown diamonds a few years ago that hit the front page, stuck around, and have absolutely fallen in love with the Reddit community. Thus, I want to give back to my fellow Redditors with a bunch of words and a few pictures to explain Palantir from the perspective of a former employee. You may think that I’m a Palantir sock puppet given how my bullish I am in this DD. I’m not. Turns out I have a DD-writing fetish. Don’t kink shame. Here’s a couple of my prior DDs on De Beers, Tiffany & Co., and the FTC. _______ Positions or ban: At the current PLTR share price, I hold a Keyser Söze position - I could sell out this week and simply walk off into the sunset. But I’m not going to. I have yet to sell all of my unlocked 20%, and I plan to mostly diamond hands my soon-to-be-unlocked 80%, with a decade long diversification plan to exit my concentrated stock position, regardless of earnings tomorrow. Why? I like the stock, a lot. _______ #1) Praise & Constructive Criticism for Demo Day Existentially, Demo Day was incredibly impressive. This thread with u/namingisreallyhard, u/DentalFox, and u/jamauer sums it up: ​ https://preview.redd.it/d0p7dwzijph61.jpg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9caa7b51ca8f7c2315988eda62f4afa7f30f7b07 Four things stood out to me: Superior Design Language to CRM, MSFT, and GOOG: Palantir has a completely different front-end user experience (UX) than my time at Palantir, that I saw for the first time on Demo Day. I find it practical, beautiful, and efficient. The design language is called Blueprint Javascript, and it’s built on React, a modern web development platform that Facebook built. Big ups to Palantir for open sourcing BlueprintJS, meaning that anyone can use it: https://blueprintjs.com/ Blueprint is a UI toolkit for web development of complex data-dense interfaces for desktop applications. Compared to the cartoonish UX of Salesforce’s Lightning, the flat UX of Google, and the rigid UX of Microsoft Office, I would much prefer to work in Blueprint all day. I struggle with how spread out Lightning is by default and really appreciated how dense the Blueprint inerfaces are without feeling crowded. Getting that balance right is really difficult. Deep Investment in Deployability: Administrative tools are the unloved stepchild of enterprise software. No-one buys the backend system, so minimal investments are typically made to build the backend tools to run the software. Salesforce still hasn’t ported their admin tools from their clunky Web 1.0 Salesforce Classic to their more modern Lightning design system. Google’s back end admin tools suck compared to their client facing tools - Gmail, Calendar, AdWords, etc. The admin tools that Palantir demoed appeared far better than what I use every day to run my Salesforce instance. I bet I could do most tasks in Foundry 40-75% faster than Salesforce. Migration from ‘Find the Terrorist’ to 'Cheat Code for War': When I was at Palantir, the primary use case for Gotham was link analysis to find the bad guy. Gotham has clearly evolved from that mission to a far broader set of missions. Another Redditor described Gotham as ‘cheat code for war,’ and I think that is spot on. That’s why Palantir has won so many different logistics, mission planning, command and control, etc. military contracts recently, including the Space Force DoD IL-6 SaaS Approval: Palantir moving to IL-6 approval could be an entire massive DD on its own, but I’ll keep it short. It’s a big fucking deal to get Apollo running on classified networks, and Palantir is far ahead of the other big SaaS players in this approval: https://preview.redd.it/hl1j7wwkjph61.jpg?width=1314&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4dc190a30dc75e8d66bcd6c8ab74cb42472137d Now that I have fanboied on Demo Day I want to be critical of the presentation style of Demo Day. I’d give the presenters a C+ at best. I found it rushed, confusing, and difficult to follow. I had to watch it twice to fully absorb the content, and I’ve given 500+ Palantir demos in my lifetime! My constructive criticism: Slow down 15-20% Err on the side of a simpler, more approachable lexicon For the love of God, stop reading from scripts. Use bullet points Handoffs were way to abrupt. Take a deep breath between presenters for us to get prepared for a new topic Get better microphones and Snowsound panels for future presentations Get a professional public speaking coach involved in rehearsals I’m not alone in my take on Demo Day. Here are a few unprompted DMs I got from random Redditors on the presentation: · I don't know if it is just me, but I genuinely felt like I was watching a haphazard presentation that didn't really do justice nor capture attention in a lucrative way · It lacked charisma and charm, and it felt cobbled together like a group project by university students · I was watching the demo day presentation, and left feeling underwhelmed. It may have been impressive to someone who is in the industry, but from someone outside of it, it all sounded greek to me. · I felt like the Gotham team was clearly the A team and Foundry needs better presentation skills. I know my last PLTR DD made the rounds at Palantir, so here’s a direct message to those behind Demo Day - if everyone told you that you ‘killed it,’ you *really* need to find someone in the organization willing to speak truth to power. _____ #2) Why Palantir is a Diamond Fisted Iron Man Suit One of the Demo Day presenters made an interesting comment that stuck with me: At Palantir, we build Iron Man suits, not robots. No, Palantir does not have a skunk works program building flying mech suits (AFAIK). Palantir builds cerebral cyborgs, not physical cyborgs. Palantir’s products create a symbiotic relationship between human beings and computers to better solve cerebral tasks, not physical tasks. ​ Iron Man. Cerebral Edition. If you have not watched Demo Day yet (or you rewatch it), listen for how many times they say the words ‘decision’ and ‘decision makers.’ Why a diamond fisted Iron Man suit? Palantir just closed an enterprise deal with Rio Tinto, who is the 3rd largest diamond producer in the world. So Rio Tinto will be using their PLTR-powered Iron Man suits to dig for fistfuls of diamonds on multiple continents. ______ #3) The True ROI of Palantir Palantir is really expensive. No question about it. But you know what’s more expensive than Palantir? Bad Decisions. Being wrong is really, really expensive. See the Airbus 380, Microsoft’s market share of cell phones, the Golden State Warriors drafting Todd Fuller over Kobe Bryant, shorting GME in early January, and BMW/Mercedes/Lexus’s dismissal of TSLA. The true ROI of Palantir is substantially better decision making across your organization. Even a moderate improvement in decision making creates deep fucking value for an organization. For example, Airbus claims that Foundry helped them improved the speed of A350 production by 33%. There are 5 million discrete parts in an A350, and the Foundry-powered decisions led to a 33% improvement in production. Palantir doesn’t make that claim. Airbus makes that claim. That’s absolutely bonkers and that’s why this is no surprise: ​ https://preview.redd.it/ns8wcvvsjph61.jpg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fb13831b6f18b58f53fa5131f6543e950e8569f The BP renewal and the new deals (PG&E, Rio Tinto, Fiat, etc) prove u/petroduct is right. If you have complex logistics, you should have Foundry. Say that Palantir improves the quality of decisions made at United Airlines by 6.9%. How much will the UAL stock appreciate over the next decade? If Palantir helps Rio Tinto improve decision making by 4.20%, how much will their bottom line grow by 2025? Below are a few excerpts from United's Director of Technical Operations on how they use Foundry. This is just scratching the surface of how an airline can use Palantir to improve operations; however, if each of these models/decisions are incrementally improved, even a little bit, the value to United is fucking deep. The entire blog post is a great read if you want to go deeper on Foundry: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-data-science-optimizing-united-airlines-pandemic-tom-romanowski/ [minor edits for brevity] The return-to-service model recommends which specific aircraft to return at which time in the future and how to utilize our available maintenance capacity (internal & external) to ensure they’re airworthy when we need them. Since we don’t know when air travel demand will recover, the models need to account for slow recoveries, fast recoveries, and everything in between. Our optimization models consider when “big events” (airframe checks, engine overhauls, and landing gear overhauls) will be due, along with the cost of those events and the available maintenance capacity to complete them. The models also incorporate other factors: parts availability and cost, available technician hours at each maintenance station, ability to secure supplemental maintenance lines at external MRO providers, aircraft-specific mechanical reliability and on-time performance, and even the quality of the in-flight products (seats, Wi-Fi, entertainment, power outlets). The team is also helping optimize the cycling of active and parked aircraft whenever we have surplus planes available to fly, which ensures regulatory compliance with the maintenance program, minimizes operating costs, and enables our Tech Ops team to be very intentional about balancing our operational objectives – do we want to fly the most reliable aircraft, the lowest cost aircraft, or the aircraft with the most time left until its next major maintenance event? ​ ______ #4) Muthafuckin’ Clouds in Nuclear Submarines Toward the end of the Apollo demo, one of the presenters offhandedly mentioned something that caused my jaw to hit the floor: Palantir will be deploying Apollo on US Navy submarines. IL-6. Clouds. In. Nuclear. Submarines. As someone who has installed and managed Palantir servers in server rooms all over the world, I can’t state how huge it is that the US Navy is approving the Apollo modular cloud architecture to be deployed on some of their most sensitive and expensive assets. The fact that upgrades to the entire fleet can be managed like upgrading an AWS server? ​ https://preview.redd.it/mvmtqwdvjph61.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef22d9c598c63b3bd4e488b8439bc4082ff9f5ba _____ #5) Does it Matter that Palantir Needs FDEs at Deployments? One of the favorite arguments of the Palantir bears is that Palantir is an unscalable, overvalued services company that should have the same P/E as Accenture, Booz, BAE, etc. The bears say that Palantir only has a handful of clients and can’t scale. In my mind, the quality of the admin tools show on Demo Day and the IBM partnership announcement eviscerated that argument. When I was at Palantir, it was a bitch to build and manage deployments. From what I saw on Demo Day, Palantir is now easier than Salesforce to deploy. I say that as someone who has written tens of thousands of lines of code for Salesforce (Lightning, Apex, SOQL and Visualforce). Eventually, Palantir will have the same ecosphere of 3rd party developers that deploy and manage instances of SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, etc. but that will take years to fully mature that ecosphere. Eventually, Palantir will have robust certifications for various skills and tasks to manage Palantir deployments. But in the meantime, Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) will continue to directly manage deployments. Given how much progress Palantir has made on the tools to improve the efficiency of the FDEs, I no longer worry about the scalability of that team. Say that three utility companies all buy Palantir – PG&E, ConEd, and Entergy. Palantir invests 4 years worth of FDE time in PG&E, 1 year in ConEd, and none in Entergy. PG&E improves decision making by 10% and does a massive enterprise deal with Palantir to deploy to every part of the organization. ConEd improves decision making by 2% and does a moderate renewal for a few specific teams. Entergy bungles their deployment and actually makes worse decision as a result. They do not renew. Assuming ~$500k/year all in is the cost for a good FDE at Palantir, we're talking about small up front investments that return bigly for PLTR in the long run as those deployments are extended like the BP deal. To put it another way, when you think about Palantir deployments in months or years, the FDE overhead is spooky. But when you think about those deployments converting into decade long operating system for XXXXXX deals, the FDE overhead is not significant. Also, to be honest, there are very few people with TS/SCI security clearances that even know what React is, much less how to write code against it, so in some of the more sensitive use cases for Palantir, I think that FDEs will be the way for a long time. ______ #6) Should you YOLO on PLTR? I’m not going to give anyone financial advice, but I do want to point out a few things: PLTR is not a meme stock. Palantir is not a small-cap that can move bigly because, a bunch of furry quadrupeds gathering on internet messaging boards collectively decide that we like the stock. Palantir is a bunch of wickedly smart people building Iron Man suits for the largest, most important organizations in the world. Many of the larger institutional investors still don’t truly comprehend Palantir and the medium term public valuation may not properly reflect the present and future value created by Palantir. I have no idea when the analysts will finally get the value of PLTR. A lot of historically successful investors think PLTR is extremely overvalued. They may be right. A lot of historically successful investors have massive positions long PLTR. CathThey may be right. So my crystal ball says PLTR may go up, down, or sideways for longer than you can stay solvent or interested in Karp memes. Regardless of the ticker, if you YOLO, please YOLO responsibly my friends, and for the love of god take some off the table if/when you’re fortunate enough to have green dildoes in your accounts– whether your gains are from PLTR or any other stock you happen to like, a lot. _______ #7) My Appreciation for the Palantir Team I do want to take a moment and say to anyone who has been a part of building Palantir over the last few decades: what you have built is incredible. Thank you. As an American, thank you. As a stockholder, thank you. Enjoy your tendies, you’ve earned them my friends. ________ #8) How I Play My Lockup Regardless of how the markets view the earnings report tomorrow, I’m largely HODLing my remaining Palantir shares, as I think Palantir is in a class of it’s own, lapping the competition like SpaceX and Tesla. I do have a professional advisor and we have prepared tax-optimized divestment strategies for a number of scenarios, but none of those scenarios involve paper handing out of my remaining position, regardless of a good, bad, or ugly response to the 2020 earnings report tomorrow. Why would I sell now if I believe that FAANG-like is growth coming over the next 10 years? Why would I sell when I think Palantir in 2021 is like Mercedes F1 in 2014 about to go on a worldwide domination over the next few years? Also, with the shares finally unlocked, I can borrow against them for the first time. I've already responsibly taken enough off the table pre-IPO, so I’m not in any rush to sell. My first substantial limit order will be at a market cap of ~$100B with a ladder up to ~$250B. So I’m skeptical that I’ll sell any more than 5% of my remaining shares this week. That’s my $0.02 on Demo Day and some of the recent news. So long, and thanks for all the tendies. See ya at the restaurant at the end of the universe PLTR gang! 💎🙌💎 🚀🚀🚀 submitted by /u/Ada_Diamonds to r/wallstreetbets [link] [comments]

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