Blake Scholl

And I would like to believe that at some point it would have happened without me and without Boom, but it's not obvious that it would have.

No, there are a couple people working on hyper, well, yeah.

We'll get into it later.

China announced it right after we broke the South American, right?

So we inspired you for the Chinese.

But no, there's some companies working on hypersonic weapons where their story is they want to build a hypersonic airliner.

But I think they're just defense companies who were started in an era when defense was not socially acceptable.

And so they had to say that it was a commercial product when really it wasn't.

Maybe they'll make it commercial someday.

But no, nobody else is actually building a supersonic airliner.

We are the only private company ever to have built and flown a supersonic jet.

And it's only been governments before.

This was like rockets before SpaceX.

Nobody had done it outside of government.

Never had there been a civilian supersonic jet made in America.

So there's a lot of first in here.

I could tell my story of it.

And I think there's a really interesting perspective that also looks back from World War II to today and what the arc of that has been.

But for me, so I'm 44.

I watched the Berlin Wall fall.