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Blake Scholl: How Boom Supersonic Took Flight
Pattern Breakers
The Key to a Supersonic Jet
"It turns out it's possible to understand things without yet understanding them well enough to teach them," he says. "I can't do a four year aerospace degree, I don't time for it, let alone have a whole second career." The key question is how much better would we have to be in Concord on fuel economy in order to come in close to subsonic business class? And so that was the original insight that this would be an all business class supersonic airplane and that people would trade in their flatbed seats for nice, first class domestic seat type footprint.
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