Supersonic Flight
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
20VC
2 statements about Supersonic Flight, every show
Scholl: Boom's underlying technology existed ten years before the company launched
“The technology for supersonic flight existed actually a long time before Boom was founded. Technologically, the company could have been created 10 years earlier, but nobody started it.”
Conventional wisdom that commercial supersonic flight is economically unviable is false
“Six years ago, when we were starting Boom, the conventional wisdom was no one would pay enough to be able to fly supersonic, that it would have to be really That the sonic boom was an insurmountable barrier that would take decades of R&D to solve. And it turns…”