Blake Scholl

We got rid of all the knobs and switches and buttons, except a handful that are really important for safety.

And everything else is a big touchscreen.

And it's really nice.

And so you don't need to be some hot shit military pilot to fly this thing.

It's a little scary to say it, but we're designing it for the worst pilot.

Just like there's a worst doctor, there's a worst lawyer, there's also a worst airline pilot.

And we want to design this such that the average pilot can succeed.

Pricing-wise, it'll be like what people pay in business class today.

Okay.

Within nominal fare, I think $5,000 round trip would be very profitable on this airplane.

I know that's not for everybody, but that's a pretty good business class price.

Round trip across the Atlantic would be about five.

CONUS round trip could be less than that.

But on board the airplane, we wanted, so years before I started Boom, I would get on a commercial airplane, I'd look around, and I'd think, man, what if this thing was designed by Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive?

And just notice the number of seams and gaps from the outside of the airplane to the inside of a window.

Notice, I mean, I'll say something, you can't unsee it once you've heard this.

If you look at the underside of the overhead bin in the window seat on every commercial airplane, you'll notice there's this little brown splotch

in every row.

Why?

Because when people stand up, they bump their head, and their hair schmutz gets on the underside of the bin.