Blake Scholl
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I mean, I haven't found anything in the world I don't think I would be better off faster.
I think everything's better faster.
But for flights over three or four hours, you can argue cutting it in half is meaningful.
So ultimately, if we want to enable more people to go more places more often, we need the flights to be faster.
We need to delete the terrible hassle and inconvenience that is air travel today.
And we need to get the cost down as much as we can so that cost isn't a barrier to actually going.
So that's the ultimate goal, to confine subsonic jets to the airplane boneyards, put them in museums where they belong.
But it'll take a few iterations to get there.
So Overture, which is this airplane, the first one, first commercial airplane, starts all business class.
So you can kind of think of, for people who know the Tesla story, RXB-1 supersonic demonstrator, it's kind of like the Tesla Roadster.
Proved you can do it.
Not, you know.
The airplane was really just for a test pilot.
Prove we could do it.
Prove the technology was there.
Okay, the first product is kind of like the Model S. A lot of people can afford to drive a Model S, but not everybody.
And then we take everything we learn from that airplane and we'll build a second generation, larger airplane that's even more affordable.
And we'll probably take two or three kind of iteration cycles to the point where anybody who wants to fly supersonic will be able to afford to fly supersonic.
Ultimately, there's going to be a whole family of airplanes.
The way you make...