Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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So, XB1.
accomplished some radical things.
Not only did we break the sound barrier, but we did something that we didn't even think was part of the original plan, which is related to solving sonic boom.
XB-1 broke the sound barrier on two flights, six times through the sound barrier, each time, no audible sonic boom on the ground.
We actually demonstrated a principle that had been talked about for a long time called Mach Cutoff, where if you break the sound barrier at a sufficiently high altitude and at the right speed for the current weather, the sonic boom actually makes a U-turn in the sky and never touches the ground.
So it's like if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, did it really make a sound?
So by making the sonic boom disappear entirely, we are able to put aside a question that had long plagued people talking about supersonic flight, which is how quiet is quiet enough?
If there's no boom at all, there's nothing to argue about.
And so it was about 24 hours from breaking the sound barrier to be invited to the West Wing.
and 115 days from breaking the sound barrier to an executive order making supersonic flight legal again in the US.
Yeah, people talk about, isn't it a bad idea to build in a regulated industry?
Turns out you can change the regulations.
And the way you do it is just by building the thing and communicating why it's okay.
By demonstrating that we could have supersonic flight without a sonic boom, everybody got excited about it.
And I like to say that supersonic flight isn't red or blue.
It's red, white, and blue.
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 supersonic flight is coming back.
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