In this week’s episode, Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, Blake Scholl. They discuss the path to making supersonic flight commercially viable again – and why it disappeared in the first place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the coming weeks, the Chiefs has lined up a hot list of industry leaders, from aviation to automobiles, to find out exactly how we'll be getting from A to B when the world reopens and who'll be taking us there.
So far, we've been joined by those with a more historic and established presence in the market.
But looking to the future means innovation, and that requires new players, too.
On the precipice of a potentially radical disruption in the aviation market sits CEO and founder of Boom Supersonic Blake Scholl.
However, Boom aren't concerned with engineering anything brand new.
Instead, they've tasked themselves with updating a form of travel that inexplicably dropped off the radar almost 20 years ago, at least in a civil context.
In their view, the Concorde is due for a comeback.
So what does the path to making a supersonic commercial flight look like?
And why did it disappear in the first place?
Well, joining me today from his office in Denver, Colorado, Saul tells us why this wacky idea is not so crazy after all.
In his view, it has the potential to make long haul travel more sustainable, more accessible and stress free.
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This is the Chiefs on Monocle 24 and I'm Tyler Brulee.
Blake, thank you very much for joining us.
I guess we're talking at a time when the world is starting to open up.
As part of the series, of course, we're talking to a variety of individuals who are involved in all aspects of transportation.
Here you are, you've got a concept, you have a company, you have a wealth of investors who want to make the world go faster.
Let's just kick off.
For those who aren't familiar when you talk about what you are doing as an entity, how are you defining it?