Blake Scholl: belief

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…There would have been more money spent on consumption, right? More popcorn, lower taxes. I think we have to look for our inspiration from the areas that developed not like that and understand those histories. From 1903, with the Wright Brothers’ first flight, all the way through the introduction of the 707, we had entrepreneurially driven, commercially driven innovation in aviation. Every generation of new commercial airplane was faster than the one that came before it until we literally banned speed as a vector of innovation. Every generation brought air travel safer to more people, too. That was happening privately. Imagine if that had gone differently and the 707 had been a state-led project and DARPA had been involved and blah, blah, blah. We’d be sitting here asking the same question about jets, except none of us would fly on them. Why isn’t Boom first building a private plane before the attempt at a commercial airliner?…

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