Blake Scholl
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562 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Blake Scholl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As we're scaling up from XB1, the test airplane, to Overture, the passenger airliner that we all get to fly on, we have to go big.
We're taking our vertically integrated manufacturing and building a super factory that will allow us to build engines and ultimately airplanes at scale.
This is what it'll look like when it's complete in just a few months.
And this is what it's been like over the last few months.
In January, this was an empty building with a lease that we had just signed.
And now six months later, the first machines are going in.
And in just a couple of weeks, we're making our first production engine parts.
Along the way, we solved what was the other hard problem with building a supersonic airliner, which is how do you finance the development?
When you're building something that you know is going to take billions of dollars in R&D capital, and when it's impossible to predict exactly how much capital it will take or exactly how long it will take,
it's very, very difficult to raise financing.
But we discovered along the way that because we had made a choice to vertically integrate our own propulsion, we were able to take the engine that we were building for supersonic flight and sell it separately on the ground as a natural gas power turbine.
And that's what we call superpower.
This is a supersonic engine adapted for ground power generation that can ship without the rest of the airplane, thereby generating the test data, the learnings, the reliability, and also the capital that we need to go big.
The first superpower turbine's under construction right now and goes to the first customer in less than 12 months.
So let's take a step back and think about why we're doing this.
I think it's important to create things that we want to exist in the world.
And I think it's important to create things that inspire other creators.
Because of that, we chose to livestream XB1's supersonic flight.
This was the first supersonic installation of Starlink, the first supersonic air-to-air livestream.
And when we turned that stream on, millions of people around the world tuned in.
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