Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine
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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 insan
From that fateful moment at Kitty Hawk, we strove to fly higher and faster.
This pilot and this airplane are about to be the first ever to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Concorde showed us the future of passenger flight in 1969. In 2003, we lost all that.
Good morning. For the last time, speedboat Concorde two.
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