The iconic Concorde, the world's first — and to date, last — supersonic commercial passenger jet, took its final transatlantic voyage on October 24, 2003. It was the end of an era, with a crowd of well-wishers gathering in London to view what felt, in some ways, like the end of the future: The conclusion to a dream in which flights took place in a commercial jet that flew faster than a bullet, faster than the Earth rotated.
Close to two decades on, Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonics, a company that, in his words, is all about trying to continue what Concorde began. At present, it employs 150 people and has received backing from the likes of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.
"I think of Concorde, really, as the story of a journey started, but not yet completed, of a big vision," Scholl told Digital Trends. "For a variety of reasons, it fell short. [It shut down before people could] iterate and improve on it. We see ourselves as kind of picking up where Concorde left off, and building on that amazing technological legacy."
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