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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate

Boom founder Blake Scholl: from high school dropout to supersonic high-flyer

Blake Scholl in front of Boom jet
Blake Scholl: No one else was reviving supersonic travel, so I decided to.’ Photograph: Alyson Mcclaran/Reuters

Blake Scholl has been a plane geek since he was a baby, when his parents took him to watch turboprop Cessnas taking off near their home in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“I had a Fisher-Price toy plane, and my parents say I held it up and knew it was like those in the sky,” he says in a video chat from his car in Denver, Colorado. “After that I was always sketching pictures of airplanes and thinking about how to build them.”

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