Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
Founder/CEO @boomaero. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.
Boom! We cracked it! Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise—supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom. We quietly (har har) demo'd this on XB-1's first supersonic flight—three times actually. 🧵👇
Unpopular opinion: the original Eames mobile lounge concept was quite good and should be reborn much closer to the original idea.
We're here to set the record straight. Despite the rumors and misinformation, the Mobile Lounges aren't going anywhere anytime soon. We are in the middle of a multi-year refurbishment project!!
I once got to fly the Concorde sim at Brooklands. Steve Bohill-Smith talked me through it. “Where do you want to land? Heathrow? JFK? Kai..” “Kai Tak!!!” I exclaimed. Nothing like landing the most epic airplane at the most epic airport. Sad and eerie, both are gone now.
CONTENT WARNING! "Cathay Pacific 747 landing in Kai Tak Porn"
Signed up for @Starlink direct to cell with @TMobile today. For first time in my life I now want to go find a dead zone…
Been thinking about hardware business models and innovation lately. When a business is highly innovative and products are improving rapidly, business models are focused on selling products and upgrades. Think iPhone in the early years. Airplanes through the dawn of the jet age.…
It’s Christmas in July @boomaero. Machine tools arriving daily. Pretty soon we’ll be turning big blocks of metal into the world’s most advanced jet engine…
The @ycombinator corporate jet… maybe should be named “Something people want.”
New @ycombinator corporate jet
Our mill turn weighs in at 65,000lbs, holds 160 tools in its magazine, and can precision machine large castings and forgings. A fully-assembled Symphony engine weighs as much as XB-1 at landing. These are big machines, folks.
We will organize an around-the-world supersonic brunch in which the most amazing breakfast from each culture is served in every city we land in. What should be on the menu?
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.
Symphony machine tools are literally arriving daily this week. This giant lathe is one of the smaller units. Yesterday we took delivery of a 65,000lb machine—which just barely fit through the loading door. Hardware is just more fun.
The first machine has arrived in Boom’s new shop. 🚛🛠️ Our Mazak Quick Turn 450MY lathe is installed and ready to start supporting Symphony—the engine for sustainable supersonic flight. The shop is coming online, and there’s much more to come. ✈️
This is so sick, but Overture is made of carbon fiber. She's naturally a sleek matte black.
don't paint it keep it raw aluminum like starship and partner with @redbull opportunity of a lifetime
Concorde did Pepsi. What should Overture do?
When @pepsi livery for @boomaero ?
It’s time to rebuild better!
«A world that doesn't exist anymore»
Taking 12 y/o to first sleep away camp @CTYJohnsHopkins—for 3 weeks of astronomy. “Next year I want to do astrophysics.” CTY changed my life as a kid—my first experience that “school” could be exciting, challenging, interesting. So glad my kids are doing it a generation later!
Flashback to 2018 when Mike Bannister let me put the nose down on @ConcordeGBBDG
