A desk that treats flight plates as issues, not trophies
Net Engine Grid started as a shared notebook of Captain Marvel cosmic flight captions. It is still a notebook — now with a table in Bangkok, a seasonal calendar, and a folder for requests that should never be posted.
Origin
In 2019 Kritsada Phan kept a paper list of cosmic flight covers because listing pages reused the same gold-wake crop for three different cycles. Friends in Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen asked him to check plates before they spent a season’s budget. Mali Chaiyaporn joined when those checks started colliding with Songkran travel and school calendars — the mints did not wait, but the collectors did.
The name on the door is the ledger name. The work is still caption reading, drop timing, and quiet letters to holders.
How we work
Every accepted brief gets a cycle number, a skip-or-hold line, and a Bangkok-hour timestamp. We would rather close a search than invent a plate. Collectors who want a public campaign are pointed elsewhere; that is not this table.
Thailand in the calendar
Drop sheets are written around Thai public weeks, not only around mint schedules. If a Flight Cycle lands in a travel-heavy window, we say so in the seasonal note rather than pretending every collector is awake at the same hour.
People at the table
Kritsada Phan
Reads covers, gutters, and reprint captions. Writes provenance sentences that name the issue, not the mood.
Mali Chaiyaporn
Keeps the seasonal drop sheet and the Songkran delay rule. Speaks first when a collector wants to buy through a noisy week.
Arun Watcharawit
Checks binary-star variants against cabinets we have already read, so sparkle extras do not masquerade as missing cycles.