HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Commercial air travel has been stuck below the sound barrier for about 20 years, since the Concorde’s last flight in 2003. While the technology exists to fly about twice as fast as we do now, conventional wisdom in the aerospace industry is that supersonic flight simply doesn’t make economic sense. Blake Scholl disagrees...

This week on How I Built This Lab, Blake tells Guy how Boom Supersonic is working to revive the dream of supersonic air travel—and already has orders from major airlines like United and American for their first supersonic aircraft, the Overture. Plus, Blake describes his transformation from tech startup founder to aviation leader and discusses how founder-led companies can foster innovation in commercial flight.

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0:09.4	This is Chip Rantley, co-host of the NPR Podcast White Lives.
0:13.4	Before we found the man in Vancouver, before we sued the State Department, before we snuck
0:18.1	into the graveyard of a federal penitentiary, all we had were the photographs.
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0:31.5	Hey, welcome to How I Built This Lab.
0:33.8	I'm Guy Ross.
0:35.2	So imagine getting a jet in New York and arriving in Paris just three hours later.
0:41.1	Well, for a long time, that was possible.
0:43.4	From the mid-70s to the early 2000s, the Concorde made the dream of supersonic commercial
0:48.8	flight a reality.
0:50.7	It would whisk passengers across oceans in half the time it takes today.
0:55.0	The problem was it was really, really expensive.
0:58.4	It takes a ton of fuel to fly that fast.
1:01.8	And the planes had to be so skinny and aerodynamic that they couldn't carry as many passengers
1:06.7	as a typical airliner.
1:08.1	And so the Concorde just didn't make economic sense.
1:11.5	Now, it's been 20 years since the last commercial supersonic flight happened in 2003.
1:17.8	But today's guest, Blake Scholl, hopes to change that.
1:21.6	This company, Boom Supersonic, is designing a new generation of supersonic airplanes for
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