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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aviation 9

In a safety-critical industry the regulator should be recruited onto the team early, so that it is you and the regulator against the problem.
When air travel doubles in speed the important changes happen on the ground: Hawaii was not a tourist destination until the jet made it reachable.

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startups 4

Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did.
Iterating through outside aerospace suppliers is close to impossible, which is why a hardware startup should own its own machine shop.

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design 2

Airliner 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.
Good 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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