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In 1969, Concorde embarked on its maiden voyage and opened up the world to a new generation of travelers – and musicians. Artists such as Elton John, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, Phil Collins, Rod…
“We have to be bold. We can’t stop because something might go wrong. If we do, the risk-free life gets very boring, because we literally don’t leave home” – Blake Scholl, CEO and founder The…
A letter from Boom Founder & CEO Blake Scholl It’s an iron law of human society that people travel to and trade with nearby communities more than they do with faraway lands. This principle is…
Today, the Senate Commerce Committee, by agreeing to the Lee-Gardner Amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill, took a monumental step in the direction of more affordable access to supersonic…
Update: The Lee-Gardner Amendment was adopted by the Senate Commerce Committee by unanimous voice vote. At Boom Supersonic, our mission is to eliminate the barriers to experiencing the planet.…
From my desk at work, I can gaze out the window and watch airplanes take off and land all day. Far too often, my male colleagues and I drop what we’re doing and run to the window to see what…
Concorde died because it was too expensive to operate. You can make a good argument that the project was doomed from the outset, because it was launched before the technology for efficient and…
There are lots of interrelated causes, but TL/DR we biffed the introduction of supersonics in the 1970s — building large SSTs before we had the tech to make them efficient — and then banned…
