Blake Scholl

We like controlling our own manufacturing, our own engineering, our own test.

So we don't have to get anybody's permission to go do anything.

And then in North Carolina is where we're doing this at scale.

So we have a 180,000-foot facility where we're going to assemble the first engines and where we're going to assemble the Overture airliner.

And we've got a 62-acre campus there that when we build that out, we'll be able to do 100 airplanes a year.

As soon as we can deliver them.

If we had them in a warehouse today, the airlines would be asking for more after that.

And so it's as soon as we can get them done.

My goal is to get production ramping, starting five years from now when we've proved the airplane is ready, and then we'll scale it as quickly as we can to be at full rate, hopefully cranking 100 jets well within a decade from now.

When I say that, it kills me to say it's going to take a decade.

We'll do this as fast as we possibly can.

Anything that's a sufficiently long distance, I think so.

I think I'm very bullish about the next 10 years of flight.

I think for shorter-range flights, there's a lot of work happening for vertical takeoff and landing, companies like Joby and Archer.

I think there's going to be also some good work in hybrid electric, mid-range aircraft.

Think things like LA, San Francisco.

LA, San Francisco, you're not going to fly that supersonic.

But what you might do is have a neighborhood vertiport where you can get on an airplane that can take off and fly you right to the right neighborhood, you go into an LA.

And you save all the ground time and you're subsonic in the air, but you get this big speed up.

So I think there's things like that that will cover short range.