Blake Scholl

I didn't think that was the conversation we were going to have.

And we talked about it.

And I was like, look, I want an engineering mindset applied to thinking analytically about the kinds of people we select, how we select them, how we train them, how we onboard them.

And think about this.

And if you're willing to try it, just try it for a year.

And then if you don't like it, I'll let you go back to any other job you want.

But he's like three months into it now and he's loving it and it's going so well.

The good news is we're ahead.

And if we stay out of our own way, we're going to stay ahead.

Airplanes are one of the few areas where we're still ahead in the U.S., but we got to be careful.

So China right now is shipping a 737 clone.

We don't know that in America because we won't import it here.

But elsewhere, that's going to happen.

They are working on a Boeing 787 clone.

And earlier this year, they announced the one after that's going to be a supersonic airplane.

And when they did the announcement, so I think what happened was they saw what we'd done.

at Boom, and they said, we've got to play.

And they found some research paper and then labeled it with a product number and put that out as a press release.

They put it in the South China Morning Post.

That's where the CCP puts things that they want to be noticed in the West.