487: Blake Scholl—Making Supersonic Travel Real
2026-06-02 · 76 min · episode 487 · 5 entities
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487: Blake Scholl—Making Supersonic Travel Real
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Mike Rowe sits down with Blake Scholl , the former Amazon software engineer turned aerospace entrepreneur who walked away from Silicon Valley to revive supersonic passenger travel.
As the founder of Boom Supersonic , Blake explains the century-long pursuit of faster flight. From the Cold War race to break the sound barrier to the rise—and fall—of the Concorde, Blake explains why supersonic travel disappeared just as it seemed destined to change aviation forever. He also shares how Boom Supersonic is working to make high-speed passenger flight practical again, and what it will take to shrink a 12-hour flight into just a few hours.
Along the way, Mike and Blake discuss innovation, risk, engineering breakthroughs, and why some people refuse to accept that getting somewhere faster is a problem already solved.