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BS Blake Scholl On The Social Radars

“If you go by the state-of-the-art GE mid-sized turbine, it's called the LM6000. It is based on a 747 engine from 1971. … Boeing last built a new design airplane in 2004. … The entire time all of you have been alive, Boeing has built zero new airplanes. All they do is take the old ones and tweak them, and they don't even do that competently anymore.”

The Social Radars · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“If you go by the state-of-the-art GE mid-sized turbine, it's called the LM6000. It is based on a 747 engine from 1971. … Boeing last built a new design airplane in 2004. … The entire time all of you have been alive, Boeing has built zero new airplanes. All they do is take the old ones and tweak them, and they don't even do that competently anymore.” — Blake Scholl, The Social Radars

Context

Asked how established turbine makers reacted to Boom, Scholl says they laughed. He argues both turbine and airliner makers have stagnated; the Boeing line is from a talk he gave to undergraduates.

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