Blake Scholl

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

We're also taking the same approach to how we design our engines, which we're now building for the first time.

And we built a tool called Blade Runner.

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 gonna behave structurally and aerodynamically.

This reduces literally to real time, a process that previously would have taken dozens of engineers many months.

So investing in iteration in the world of bits is very important.

And with thanks to AI, the cost of software development is dropping.

And it's now possible to have many more software tools than previously would have been possible to build.

But you also have to iterate in the world of atoms.

And one of the most important things we discovered along the way is it's extremely difficult to iterate with outside suppliers, particularly outside suppliers in aerospace, which are

Let's just say I have no kind words for them.

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 is our R&D shop in Denver.

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

So our engineers are able to work hand in hand with our manufacturing technicians, and we're able to go from design idea to part in hours and then iterate much faster than is otherwise possible.

We're also vertically integrating our own test assets.

We're building our own engine stand about half an hour from where the engineers and the manufacturing facility exists.

This means that when we've got something ready to test, we can test whatever we want.

We don't have to reserve time in someone else's test cell and wait for that slot.

So what happens next?

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