Blake Scholl 🛫 ✓
@bscholl · Denver, CO · joined 18 Jul 2006
Founder/CEO @boomsupersonic. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.
201 604Followers
2 216Following
14 194Posts total
26.2MViews on collected posts
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Aileron problem: “They don’t see me rollin’”
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Regulatory capture is evil. Shame on all of them if this is true.
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I’d love to have been in the room for that negotiation.
Jensen: how’s a cool $10B?
Hugging face: needs to be $12.9303B because that’s 🤗 Unicode in decimal
Jensen: ok you drive a hard bargain
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It’s game over. Actually it’s been game over for awhile, just less obviously so.
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My Cybercab rides are more than 50% cheaper than Uber rides.
Cost for this 15 minute ride:
• Uber: $21 (including tip)
• Model Y: $16.99
• Cybercab: $9.65 (54% less than Uber) https://t.co/qQX45h1Ywr
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We made this beautiful high pressure compressor turbine rotor and then the team screwed it up entirely by installing all the cases and hid all the sexy stuff. https://t.co/WNMdnwcyi5
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Unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t have to bribe the community to build things. Just be a good neighbor and respect the community.
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F-117A gf, B-2 bf
(If relationship in stealth mode but still bomber)
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@bscholl 10 years and still no product. Maybe you need more people?
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@bscholl "The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."
— Bob Klein, chief engineer of the F-14 program
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@bscholl Lockheed/Boeing could never do anything like that 😅
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When I tell people about Boom, one of the things that surprises people most is just how small the team is. The XB-1 team was about 50 people and today the whole company is less than 150.
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I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
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I’m hiring my Chief of Staff—a 12–24mo tour as my right hand: in the room for our hardest decisions; then drive execution. Crush it, become a senior leader at Boom.
Must be technical with enormous capacity to get shit done. Founders welcome.
Find a quality way to reach me.
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@bscholl This is what happens if smart people take a second look at "settled" facts. Amazing work.
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Current regulations in the US prohibit supersonic flight over land, even if no audible sonic boom is produced. We look forward to working with regulators to update these regulations to unlock Boomless supersonic flight over land.
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In addition to the 600+ routes that will benefit from Overture's existing Mach 0.94/Mach 1.7 hybrid speed, Boomless Cruise adds many other practical routes—including U.S. coast to coast flights up to 90 min faster.
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Boomless Cruise is not the same thing as "low boom" attempts to dampen sonic boom. Boomless Cruise results in no audible boom; at Mach 1.7, Overture will still make a boom.
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So... in honor of Boomless Cruise, we are renaming the company 🤫Shhh Supersonic. OK, just kidding. But Boomless Cruise is no joke.
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Overture's autopilot will have a "boomless" mode that automatically selects the fastest quiet speed while advising pilots on the fastest on most efficient altitude, based on predictions informed by realtime weather.
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Top speed for Boomless Cruise varies with weather and can be as high as Mach 1.3—but will usually be between Mach 1.1 and Mach 1.2. At higher speeds, the geometry doesn't work and a boom will still reach the ground.
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Boomless Cruise on Overture would not be possible without Symphony engines—which we're designing with enhanced transonic performance, allowing Overture to break the sound barrier at a high enough altitude for Boomless Cruise.
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Boomless Cruise requires engines powerful enough to break the sound barrier at an altitude high enough that the boom has enough altitude to U- turn. And realtime weather and powerful algorithms to predict the
boom propagation precisely.
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This means that sonic booms can make a U-turn in the atmosphere without ever touching the ground. The height of the U varies—with the aircraft speed, with atmospheric temperature gradient, and with winds. So
making this work requires tech not available in Concorde's era...
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Just as a light ray bends as it goes through a glass of water, sound rays bend as they go through media with varying speeds of sound. Speed of sound varies with temperature... and temperature varies with altitude. With colder temperatures aloft, sonic booms bend upward.
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Mach cutoff physics is a theoretical capability on some military supersonic aircraft; now XB-1 has proven it with airliner-ready technology.
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Against accounts of the same size
18 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views33 412this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %16.57%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.06%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 33 412 | 5 983 | 5.58× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 16.57% | 1.49% | 11.1× |
| Engagement rate | 1.06% | 0.93% | 1.14× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
107.9K31 Aug
506
24K
2181 Sep
7K
28.4K
26.3K2 Sep
113.4K
68.4K3 Sep
1.1M4 Sep
596.3K
36.3K
103.5K5 Sep
6.6K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.14%31 Aug
0.59%
2.25%
0.92%1 Sep
1.10%
3.62%
2.65%2 Sep
2.20%
0.49%3 Sep
0.75%4 Sep
1.02%
2.07%
3.40%5 Sep
1.14%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes88.6%65 524 in total
Reposts3.7%2 709 in total
Replies4.2%3 099 in total
Quotes1.2%868 in total
Bookmarks2.3%1 726 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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