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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's November 2016 inside a hangar in Denver, Colorado.

Blake Scholl. November 2016, inside a hangar in Denver, Colorado.

Blake Scholl gazes up at a 70-foot model of an aircraft.

Blake is the 35-year-old CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company he founded two years ago.

As a pilot and aviation enthusiast, he's long dreamed of bringing back high-speed air travel,

and that goal seems finally within reach. Today he's unveiling the Boom XB1, a demonstration prototype for the

company's first supersonic jet. Beside him is a potential investor who's looking at the

playing with an unreadable expression.

Yep, this is our single seat prototype. Baby Boom, we call it.

The Boom Overture will be three times the size, and I can't tell you how excited I am.

You are one of the first people in the world to see it. The potential investor

walked slowly around the prototype, taking it in from all angles. Well, it's a dead ringer for

Concord. Droop nose, swept back wings.

Well, we took everything that worked about that design

and left behind everything that didn't.

You know, growing up, I thought Concord was just the coolest thing in the world. I was only 21 when they killed it. I was so

sad realizing I'd never get to fly on it. That why you started Boom Supersonic?

Well, I mean at first I thought someone else had to be working on it.

Supersonic air travel wasn't just going to disappear, right?

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