Blake Scholl

If you just run the math, which for some reason, I think I was just the first person who actually ran the math.

There was plenty of business in 2010s, 2020s, 2030s kind of travel demand in business class on these international routes if you can make the fares similar to what people were already paying, not stratospheric like Concorde.

So that was the original plan.

We didn't need to solve Sonic Boom.

We thought we'd do that in version two.

But it turned out it was easier than anybody said.

And so my experience getting that changed was, so on February 10th, we did our second supersonic flight on XB-1 and we announced Boomless Cruise.

And that night I flew to DC on this horrific flight that should have been supersonic.

And by the time I landed in DC, I had an invitation to the West Wing.

We started our lobby campaign that day.

I tweeted about Boomless Cruise and Elon had responded and said, yeah, we should get rid of dumb regulations like this.

We had a bunch of people who were supporting it.

I spent time in the White House.

I spent time with Congress.

I spent time with the FAA.

I basically said, look, if we're proposing to make sonic booms,

we'd have to have an argument about are they too loud or not?

And reasonable people might differ on how loud is too loud and how quiet is quiet enough.

But we can do this in a way that there is no audible sonic boom.

So there's nothing to disagree about.