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Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference

19 Nov 2025 23 published claims 2 attributable people
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01 / evaluation

The other thing that we need to do, and this is part of why it’s not a solved problem, is we need to fix checked baggage. Because baggage check is unreliable and slow, we have people carrying onto airplanes things they absolutely do not want to carry.

“The other thing that we need to do, and this is part of why it’s not a solved problem, is we need to fix checked baggage. Because baggage check is unreliable and slow, we have people carrying onto airplanes things they absolutely do not want to carry.”
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Blake Scholl
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03 / belief

I think what will be seen as a breakthrough in safety, which is about the pilot-airplane interface, the key thing is how the airplane and the pilot talk to each other in a crisis.

“I think what will be seen as a breakthrough in safety, which is about the pilot-airplane interface, the key thing is how the airplane and the pilot talk to each other in a crisis.”
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Blake Scholl
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05 / belief

I much prefer the Italian method, however you would describe it, but you’re just trying to get off the plane. I think that de facto ends up being more polite.

“I much prefer the Italian method, however you would describe it, but you’re just trying to get off the plane. I think that de facto ends up being more polite.”
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Tyler Cowen
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09 / belief

If you’re the one that actually takes a bit more risk and then something happens, then that’s career-ending. I think that is a fundamental problem we need to solve.

“If you’re the one that actually takes a bit more risk and then something happens, then that’s career-ending. I think that is a fundamental problem we need to solve.”
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Blake Scholl
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14 / evaluation

If you remember Virgin America, you could order snacks through the in-flight entertainment screens, and then when Alaska took them, that got undone, and this was because it required a different union contract.

“If you remember Virgin America, you could order snacks through the in-flight entertainment screens, and then when Alaska took them, that got undone, and this was because it required a different union contract.”
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Blake Scholl
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15 / preference

Shouldn’t I have the same concern with tolls that I don’t trust the government in the District and they’re just going to screw me over because I’m from Virginia?

“Shouldn’t I have the same concern with tolls that I don’t trust the government in the District and they’re just going to screw me over because I’m from Virginia?”
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Tyler Cowen
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17 / prediction

I think what will happen in the first wave of supersonic is that the North Atlantic, which today is red-eyes, turns into daytime flights instead, and you save an entire day.

“I think what will happen in the first wave of supersonic is that the North Atlantic, which today is red-eyes, turns into daytime flights instead, and you save an entire day.”
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Blake Scholl
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19 / preference

There’s plenty about Boom online and in your interviews, so I’d like to take some different tacks here. This general notion of having things move more quickly, I’m a big fan of that.

“There’s plenty about Boom online and in your interviews, so I’d like to take some different tacks here. This general notion of having things move more quickly, I’m a big fan of that.”
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Tyler Cowen
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21 / prediction

I think something like VTOL is probably a key enabler, because we need places to build airports that are actually accessible from population centers.

“I think something like VTOL is probably a key enabler, because we need places to build airports that are actually accessible from population centers.”
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Blake Scholl
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22 / prediction

I think there is something that we’ll reveal, I don’t know, maybe a year or two, that is a striking interior that is possible only when you design the airplane and the interior together.

“I think there is something that we’ll reveal, I don’t know, maybe a year or two, that is a striking interior that is possible only when you design the airplane and the interior together.”
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Blake Scholl
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