Blake Scholl

Holy crap, I have my life in my own hands.

And also I have my life in my own hands.

So it was both scary and empowering.

And I've loved flight ever since.

When I was in my 20s working at this startup in Seattle, there was one of the final Concords had been put out to the museum there.

And I went and saw it.

I remember looking at the Concord.

I remember looking at the SR-71 Blackbird.

and thinking, how is it that the most amazing military airplane and the most amazing commercial airplane are both found in a museum, not in the skies?

And I put a Google alert on supersonic jet that day.

And I figured someone's going to obviously fix this.

This was like 2007.

So Concorde had been gone for about four years.

I thought, okay, somebody else is going to fix this.

I want to be first to know I could buy a ticket.

I still have this email I wrote to my girlfriend about how much better our life would have been if she'd been able to show up at Mach 2.

And for basically a decade, it was just crickets.

There was some talk of a supersonic private jet.

for the ultra, ultra wealthy.

But I looked at Concorde and I was in, sheesh, I was at Amazon when Concorde got shut down.