Yesterday, Boom (YC W16) made history. They successfully broke the sound barrier (3 times!) with XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet made in America. Congrats to Blake Scholl, Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Gepetto” Brandenburg, and the entire Boom team!
Imagine if passenger travel was twice as fast as it is today. That’s the future that Blake Scholl and his team at Boom Supersonic are working towards. Scholl started as a software engineer and pivoted mid career to aviation. Now he’s at the forefront of trying to bring back supersonic travel for all of us. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Jared Friedman visited Scholl in the Mojave desert to find out how someone who didn’t have a background in aerospace engineering was able to build the first ever independently developed supersonic plane. Apply to Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com/apply Special Thanks To The Museum of Flight: https://www.museumofflight.org/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - Supersonic jet 02:36 - Idea 04:31 - Experience 05:59 - Economics 08:10 - Networking 11:02 - Team 12:40 - Advice