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Blake Scholl

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  1. Our readingAirliner design has not progressed in fifty years — the newest jet is no faster and makes the world no more accessible than the one that opened the jet age.

    Their wordsBut if we fast forward half a century, this is the 787, their latest airliner, which by the way was launched more than 20 years ago. You can't spot the difference. It doesn't fly any faster. It doesn't make the world any more accessible.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 3rd of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingGood software is modular, but a good aeroplane is the opposite — everything affects everything else, which is why hardware iteration has always been slow.

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    Their wordsBut great airplanes are incredibly integrated and everything affects everything else. uh the the best airplane design is interplay of propulsion, of aerodynamics, of structures, of all kinds of optimizations, how you fit the systems into it.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 9th of 22 in this recording