Blake Scholl

But that's hard mode.

Okay, well, why do it on hard mode?

Well, if it's not really hard, I don't think you can justify the research program.

So I think there's this dynamic around some of these R&D type efforts where the incentive for the people working on them is to make the challenge sufficiently hard that it justifies the program.

It says thou shalt not exceed Mach 1, the speed of sound.

I mean... It's a DOM regulation.

Right?

Well, I remember sitting in my basement thinking, okay, take my own ego out of this.

Just imagine it's the year 2050 and I'm retired and I'm sitting on the beach sipping Mai Tais and I'm reading, you know, aviation history.

How do I think it goes?

Do I think after 150 years of not doing supersonic, Boeing or Airbus finally do it?

No, of course not.

History never goes that way.

The big guys never suddenly get enlightened.

Okay.

Well, do I think we're still going subsonic?

Sheesh, I hope not.

Okay.

So if we're not going subsonic and Boeing and Airbus didn't do it, how would it happen?

And I just started imagining how that history would go without me being part of it.