Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2025-11-19
Books mentioned on Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
Blake Scholl is one of the leading figures working to bring back civilian supersonic flight. As the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, he's building a new generation of supersonic aircraft and pushing for the policies needed to make commercial supersonic travel viable again.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a dystopian novel by Ayn Rand that explores a society where leading innovators and industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Discussed“The supersonic is actually mentioned in Galt's speech once. And that's 1958, right? 1957, I think. Yes, 1957. Um, yeah, I mean the the passage is about the moral, you know, moral conditions and, you know, motivation. Uh, and it basically says, you know, you can't have a socialist create a supersonic airplane. You need to have a capitalist with”
