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@glyph most of my wins have been small and quiet, not particularly interesting on their own, but a lot of those, from hundreds of people, add up over the years to amazing things.

I've been setting up CI pipelines, managing our internal packing, keeping the CI servers healthy and monitored, building software update systems for our charge network, writing telemetry tools, and the like. Oh, and a lot of onboarding, teaching people how to do this kind of stuff, advocating for standards and best practices, etc.

And with a lot of this kind of quiet background supporting work that supports teams who can then focus on their subsystems that then get built into an aircraft, we have built amazing things.

In the past year, we've done a piloted eVTOL flight with transition from vertical takeoff to wing borne flight to vertical landing.

We've also built the first airplane (conventional airplane, not VTOL) off of our manufacturing line, did it's first flight in November, and now it's flown halfway across the country, charging mostly on a charge network that we've deployed https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N916LF

We've deployed dozens of chargers across the country to support this. We've been working diligently with the FAA on certification, crossing several internal milestones.

It's a long road to building, certifying, and selling an entirely new type of aircraft, with an entirely new, never before certified, propulsion system, but breaking the problem down, working on one piece at a time, and iterating and solving problems year after year gets you closer and closer.