After WWII, you did see a lot of aviation growth because it wasn’t that far removed from the garage, as it were…..and VCs STILL ran from Vern Rayburn and VLJs late last century.

Plane-jane air racing and car restoration can put you in the hole if your name isn’t Jay Leno.

Apart from useful zero-gee products being returned by the ton which may or may not open financial floodgates—-the only way a start-up could have a chance starting from scratch…is to bodge a physics breaking contraption like out of the movie EXPLORERS.

That ain’t happening.

I still advocate waterfall because it is the checklist manifesto made tangible.

Agile needs a lot of money up front for aerospace.
Computer start-ups don’t.

Elon is a unicorn…a space advocate who understands business and is successful.

Gimlin/Patterson together wouldn’t find another if they tried.

Last time Attenborough hid a blind at a National Space Society, all he saw were dime-a-dozen starry-eyed, empty-pocket darters with the occasional crew-cut barracudas from the USAF…Elon being one of the few invasive species to tough it out.

Well, folks, now’s your chance.