Blake Scholl joins Reid and Aria to explain why the future of aviation won&#x27;t be built by reviving the past, but by reinventing it. They explore how Boom Supersonic rebuilt an entire aerospace supply chain, why small AI-powered engineering teams are outperforming legacy organizations, and how software is transforming the way physical products are designed, tested, and manufactured. Blake explains why building their own engine changed everything, how AI is accelerating hardware innovation far beyond coding, and why America&#x27;s biggest bottleneck isn&#x27;t technology but its ability to build. Together, they unpack what it takes to solve seemingly impossible problems—and why the next generation of industrial innovation may come from startups willing to rethink entire systems.<br><br>For more info on the podcast and transcripts of all the episodes, visit https://www.possible.fm/podcast/

America's aerospace rebirth

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[SPEAKER_04] You don't try to bring back what left to China. What you do is invent the generation after it and have that be here. With supersonic, there will be similar stories, we just don't know what they are yet. Imagine if you could get anywhere in the world in four hours for $100. But think how differently you live your life. Fact that we're building our own engine. Change the seats on the airplane. Uh, how?

[SPEAKER_00] In 1947, Chuck Yeager climbed into a Bell X1 over the Mojave Desert and broke the sound barrier for the first time in human history. It was a classified government program, backed by the Air Force, unknown to almost everyone when it happened.

[SPEAKER_06] On January 28th, 2025, in the same airspace, a startup called Boom Supersonic did it again. No government commission, no nation state behind it. The man who made that happen grew up watching Cessnas take off from a suburban Cincinnati airport. He dropped out of high school early. He taught himself aerospace engineering from textbooks and started the whole thing in his basement in Denver with 10 people.

[SPEAKER_00] What supersonic flight reveals about what's possible, what technology can do when ambition is commercially disciplined, what AI unlocks when applied to the hardest physical problems, and what it means when a founder in a basement can do what used to require a superpower. That's what we're here to talk about today.

[SPEAKER_06] Blake also runs the same diagnostic on everything around him. Airports, roads, hotel check-in, regulatory paperwork that he ran on the aviation industry. We want to get into how he actually thinks,

America's aerospace rebirth

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America's aerospace rebirth

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.