avatar
Blake Scholl 🛫
22,530 Twitter followers
Follow
Founder/CEO @boomaero. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast. Alumnus @Amazon and @CarnegieMellon
Posts
avatar
Blake Scholl 🛫
02-15
Thread
They say founders think about their companies 24/7 and sometimes that’s literally true. Since before starting @boomsupersonic, one of my hobbies was reading aviation accident reports. Studying the tragedies of the past is one of the best ways to prevent them in the future, and has given me lots of insight into ways we can make Overture better. @MenTourPilot is one of the best resources out there for this—Petter has built a library of relatively technical explanations of the worst tragedies and near misses. Sometimes my subconscious takes this stuff in and recombines it in my dreams in weird ways. Last night, I dreamed I was on the first catastrophic A350 flight. Something went wrong over the Atlantic and the pilot ditched (successfully!) in the ocean at night. But in my nightmare world, there were issues in the Airbus evacuation system. Not all the life rafts inflated well, some had holes and deflated and sank. And none of the rafts had auto activated emergency lights, so it was difficult to find a raft I could climb onto from the frigid Atlantic water. In my dream, I took a note to ensure Overture would have great emergency evacuation lighting. In reality, 14 CFR 25.1415 requires auto lighting so neither Airbus nor Boom could really make this oversight. The oddest part of my dream was I forgot to evacuate with my iPhone, but I ended up in Paris with a working Apple Watch and was going to use Apple Pay to buy a new iPhone and cloud restore from backup. I wondered whether my iPhone would be recovered from the seabed along with the A350 and whether it would still work…
RAFT
0%
loading indicator
Loading..