Tristan Brandenburg

Mach Cut-Off Evidence Opened a Path for Overland Supersonic Flight

Boom Supersonic founder Blake Scholl argues that startups can take on industries long dominated by governments and large contractors by turning their constraints into testable problems. He points to Boom’s XB-1 demonstrator, whose supersonic flights were used to reframe US overland-flight rules, and to the company’s effort to own more of its design, manufacturing and testing loop. The broader case is that ambitious hardware requires repeated proof points, not a single leap of faith.