Blake Scholl
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It varies with temperature a little bit.
So it's substantially faster.
No.
The one thing you'll notice when you go supersonic is it's slightly smoother.
And you'll be at a higher altitude, so you're above more of the weather.
It's completely uneventful.
On Concorde, they had a big screen that would show you the speed.
And whenever it went through one, they'd celebrate and bring around champagne, make a big deal out of it, because otherwise you wouldn't notice.
The day I'm looking forward to, I'm sure we'll do that too.
The day I'm looking forward to is when the passengers say, would you stop with that?
I just want to get back to my movie or my book or my email.
I want to make supersonic flight boring, but at first we'll make it exciting.
I don't think so.
I mean, we've committed that it's not going to be louder than today's airplanes.
And we've committed it doesn't require infrastructure upgrades.
And so for the most part, you know, we get calls from airports saying, hey, would you tell us what we need to do?
Because we want to welcome your airplane.
And, you know, our answer is sit back, relax.
You don't have to do anything.
It just works.