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“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…”

“And then for Overture One, we've said, look, we want to focus on business class. And so we've designed that airplane such that it will be profitable for airlines at fares a quarter of what was charged on Concorde.”

“We're breaking ground on the plant to build it, and we will be in production by the end of 24. We'll have the first airplane in 26, and we'll start flight testing it in 27.”

“And our goal is to spend two years in that flight test campaign and then be certified to carry passengers by the end of 2029.”

“XB one broke the sound barrier on two flights, six times through the sound barrier. Each time, no audible sonic boom in the ground.”

“And so it was about 24 hours from breaking the sound barrier to be invited to the West Wing, and a 115 days from breaking the sound barrier to an executive order making supersonic flight legal again in the U.S.”

“And Blade Runner allows us with really just a couple engineers to change a blade design in real time and see exactly how it's going to behave structurally and aerodynamically. This reduces literally to real time, a process that previously would have taken doze…”

“This is a room that does not exist at GE or Rolls-Royce or Boeing or any other large aerospace company.”

“The first super power turbines under construction right now and goes to the first customer in less than 12 months.”

“The last company entrepreneur founded that went on to build a commercial airliner was Douglas Aircraft in 1921.”

“The approvals process for XB-One, that even for an R&D airplane can stretch on for months, actually happened in 90 minutes. From when we said we think we're ready to fly, and FAA said, here's the paperwork, we agree, go. We got the first ever permit for flying…”

“This is the first independently developed supersonic jet ever. Like previously it's been governance and military.”

“This is what I think ultimately every long-haul airplane is going to do. This is the way we decarbonize long-haul air travel.”

“So this meets the same most stringent noise standards that apply to latest generation subsonic airplanes.”

“Boom is a company that will probably be on the order of 10 to 15 years from founding to Carrying passengers in volume.”

“So that airplane will be finished this summer. They'll be flying and starting to set speed records next year.”

“And so that airplane will carry 75 passengers at business class fares on flights that are half as long as they are today. So think, you know, New York to London and three hours instead of seven, you know, fast enough, you can go across the pond, get business d…”

“It now takes Lockheed more than two years to build a new Patriot missile interceptor.”

“Prior to boom, the closest the America ever got to a supersonic airliner was a mock-up.”

“Last year, XB-One became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, more than a decade after founding the company.”

“After the executive order, a bill dropped in the House and the Senate to make the supersonic legalization permanent. It passed the House Unanimously. And just last week, it got out of the Senate Commerce Committee again with a unanimous vote.”

“The first human piloted airplane landed solely on augmented reality with no natural view of the runway.”

“So we chose to build our own machine shop, and now we can go from a digitally designed engine part to a prototype part in about 24 hours.”

“This was the first supersonic installation of Starlink, the first supersonic air-to-air livestream”

“He was laughed at internally and laughed at by his board when he launched Amazon Web Services. He was laughed at by the world for e-commerce.”

“Just about the longest non-stop route would be Tokyo to Seattle. In four and a half hours, and just pause on that for a second, four and a half hours across the Pacific.”

“We've already built history's first independently developed supersonic jet. We've already gotten major airlines to place orders and make nonrefundable deposits.”

“If you're not excited enough, we don't hire you because it's too hard, and if you're sane, you're gonna give up somewhere along the way.”

“And if you couldn't teach me something, you didn't get hired at Boom.”

“Hawaii was simply not a tourist destination before the speed of the jet. It was the ability to get from the US to Honolulu in seven, 8:09 hours that turned Hawaii into a mainstream tourist destination.”

“When I started Boom I had three kids under the age of two.”

“Amazon back then was the exclusive retailer for the Segway.”