Blake Scholl

It turned out that we made a bunch of mistakes.

We got into this thing, and we're having trouble making it work.

It's a very unique landing gear because it's a very unique airplane.

The most similar thing out there is an F-16.

And so we said, okay, well, we got to go find some F-16 landing gear engineers.

I don't care if we have to pull them out of retirement.

We got to just get them on the phone and ask them how they did it.

And so we called up a friend at the Air Force and they said, all right, we're on it.

24 hours later, we were actually on the phone with F-16 landing gear engineers.

Wow.

And they said, well, did you put double pistons in your shock absorber or did you just put one?

And we slapped our foreheads as double pistons.

I don't know how long it would have taken us to figure that out.

And the lesson I learned from that was it's totally okay to have a team of great young people who are driven running at something, but they should call somebody experienced along the way.

and just ask for feedback.

And they don't even have to take it, just have to ask for it.

And so that's been our new rule is totally unafraid to deploy inexperienced, high aptitude talent.

But the rule is phone somebody with some gray hair.

Don't have to listen, just make the phone call.

Nice.