Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine

Set to fly at Mach 1.7 with a 130 orders from major airlines. The founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, Blake Shaw. Boeing hasn't built a new airplane in twenty years. I mean, it's David and Goliath, but Goliath is like asleep. We're here to bring back supersonic passenger travel and ultimately to make the planet dramatically more accessible. This whole airplane was built by essentially 50 people. By 50 people. The moment you become an expert, what you're steeped in is the past, and then you're completely useless. Courage is not being fearless. Courage is acting despite the fear. If there's no boom at all, there's nothing to argue about. The world needs supersonic flight. Passengers deserve it. Please welcome Blake Scholl. Good morning. Houston, we have a problem. In 1969, we landed on the moon, and we flew an airliner through the sound barrier. Yet, more than half a century later, we can't go to the moon, and we can't fly faster than the speed of sound. The legacy, the political legacy of Concorde was a ban on supersonic flight over The US. Boeing brought us into the jet age in 1957 with the seven zero seven, but fast forward to today and their latest airliner is a literal carbon fiber copy of their first. By the way, we have interns born after the last time Boeing launched a new airplane in 2004. This is insane. But imagine imagine an alternate timeline in which innovation and flight had continued. What if we could cross the Atlantic in three and a half hours? What if Sydney were as accessible as Honolulu is today? What would that do for business, for culture, even for love? Who could do something about this? Twelve years ago, I was a software engineer and an ads guy from Amazon and Groupon. The idea that somebody with nothing more than a pilot's license could do something about this seemed laughable. In 2015, I pitched my old big boss, Jeff Bezos, on Boom's seed round, and he passed. And then he wrote this in the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter. There are certain things that only large companies can do. No matter how good an entrepreneur you are, you're not gonna build an all composite airliner in your garage startup. Not one that you'd wanna fly on anyway. I took that a little personally. But I don't blame Jeff, this is what our garage looked like back then. And this was actually a slide from our pitch deck that's That is in fact a supersonic airliner mock up made from cardboard plywood and seats from Office Depot. But big things often have humble beginnings and fast forward to last year and Boom became the first private company ever to build a supersonic jet. Something that the big companies would have put thousands of people on, we did with just 50 really dedicated men and women. And when we flew that airplane, we had the first supersonic installation …