Blake Scholl: Why Plane Speed Stalled, Supersonic Commercial Flight, & Revolutionizing the Engine

The gist

1. Boom's boomless cruise technology redirects sonic booms upward, removing the regulatory barrier that grounded Concorde and winning unanimous Congressional approval in 2025.
2. Scholl's target is 2030 for commercial service at around $3,500 round-trip trans-Atlantic fares, with 3-hour flights over land at 50% faster than today.
3. A 50-person team built the XB1 using modern digital design tools, showing small startups can outpace legacy aerospace firms that rely on outdated processes.
4. Boom's jet engine cores are being repurposed as data center power generators, with tens of gigawatts of pre-order demand and a factory being built to produce multiple gigawatts annually.