Blake Scholl founded and leads Boom Supersonic, developing the Overture airliner and Symphony propulsion technology. A software engineer turned aerospace founder, he emphasizes small teams, in-house engineering tools and rapid hardware iteration.
Blake Scholl founded and leads Boom Supersonic, developing the Overture airliner and Symphony propulsion technology. A software engineer turned aerospace founder, he emphasizes small teams, in-house engineering tools and rapid hardware iteration.
Apr 2014 — Present
Founded and leads Boom Supersonic, which is developing the Overture supersonic airliner and related propulsion systems. Leads the company’s work on XB-1, Overture, and the Symphony-based Superpower turbine program.
Feb 2012 — Mar 2014
Jan 2010 — Feb 2012
Jan 2006 — Dec 2009
Jul 2001 — Jan 2006
How Boom embeds software engineers in hardware teams and uses its mkBoom tools to make aircraft design faster to iterate.
Concrete lessons from XB-1 actuators and Symphony turbine blades on shortening the wait between engineering iterations.
