Blake Scholl

So the FAA administered it.

And the FAA had a rule that basically said, well, we don't want you to be able to build anything and later on be able to increase your footprint.

So anything you might ultimately do in a facility has to be approved in the day you build the facility.

is to just pull on that thread, and all of a sudden we're doing noise studies on an airplane we haven't designed yet, let alone built yet, where our pledge has been it's not going to be any louder.

Wow.

I tell my business friends about this, and I'm complaining about this 18-month process, and some of them are saying, are you kidding, dude?

That's good.

You had only 18 months?

Mine was years or decades.

I think the whole...

I think the whole way we do permitting and the whole way we do regulation is broken.

It is.

I hope that more people talk about it because there's also a dynamic where if you're regulated by some entity, you need to cooperate with that entity in order to actually get stuff done.

And then all the pressure is, well, definitely don't say anything bad because maybe that would sour a relationship.

Like my policy people always say, can't say anything bad about the entities that have jurisdiction over us.

But I think we just need to talk about it.

I think the system is fundamentally mistaken.

I mean, so to move forward with anything as humans, we have to take some risk.

So we have to decide what are good risks and what are bad risks.

And the way we have set the system up today is we have monopolized centrally risk decisions.