Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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But for me personally, there is nothing so moving as flying.
Think about that experience of going down the runway, of gathering speed, rushing to hundreds of miles per hour, then climbing into the sky, having this thing that we call a bird's eye view, but it really is a human's eye view.
In near perfect safety, being able to look down at the beauty of the natural world, as well as the beauty of everything that humanity has created, we get to ride aboard the wings of Newton and the Wright brothers while taking in the creations of Edison and Rockefeller.
Yet flying, which should be one of the most inspiring experiences we could ever do, we've turned into something that most people dread.
But if we look back in history, it wasn't always this way.
Those first jetliners truly did double the speed of what had come before them.
And it was a double the speed of air travel.
The most important changes were on the ground.
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, eight, nine hours that turned Hawaii into a mainstream tourist destination.
Shoes.
There's a connection even between air travel and the shoes we wear.
Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, started the company in the 1960s on a chance trip to Japan when he fell in love with Japanese-style running shoes.
And Nike got their start importing Japanese running shoes to America.
Or music.
Long before Spotify or Napster, music started to become global.
The Beatles took the first world tour in the late 1960s, a tour that simply would not have been practical 10 years earlier with slower airplanes.
So I'd like to invite you to imagine with me, what would happen if we had another doubling of speed?
What would happen if we could cross the Atlantic in three and a half hours?
What would happen if Sydney were as easy to get to as Honolulu is today?
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