JetZero

But it is just so powerful for programming.

Switching a little bit to the future, you've placed some bets at United, whether it's on some pretty radical ideas like electric air taxis with Archer or supersonic flights with Boom or a different aircraft shape with Jet Zero.

So thinking about the future, what's the future of flying going to feel like and what are you trying to explore with those bets?

Well, those bets for us, like you say they're big bets, but the truth is they're free rolls if you're a gambler.

There's a number of airlines startups that are looking at a very different fuel efficiency model.

You have a company called Jet Zero that looks promising using a different wing design, a blended wing.

The plane looks a little odd, but it says they could deliver 50% fuel efficiency.

That's interesting to us.

But I have no doubt that if Boeing got going in the next year or two, they would crush it.

Well, speaking of mid-market airplane, there is a mid-market airplane venture out there, JetZero, which is the blended wing body.

It's, it's definitely not conventional.

Um, do you think JetZero, Richard, has a, has a chance to succeed?

You know, I mean, just add $12 billion.

I mean, you know, look, they've, they've got a very interesting concept.

Um, you know, hey, EC2, maybe I'm interested.

Everything else, hmm, loopy.

... yeah, before-

Well, JetZero, I mean, they're building a prototype right now.

Yep.

So I wouldn't doubt it if, uh, we see something like that come to fruition.

All right, we're gonna try to knock this out.

We're gonna talk about the JetZero Z-4, the Heart ES-30, or the Boom Overture, which gets certified first.

We put a poll out.

American getting into the premium game at last.

We've talked about this a, quite a bit in the-

We have

... last couple of weeks, the JetZero Z-4.

It's a blended wing design, carries 250 passengers, range of 5,000 nautical miles, uses Pratt & Whitney 2040 engines or similar.

There's a ton of growth happening in these areas.

So Greensboro, again which is in Guilford County, is the place that the JetZero company was granted a huge amount of land.

They started building this, this facility, so, and they were supposedly they're going to hire 14,000 employees in that area to produce the JetZero planes that they are coming out with, with the release date of the first plane being ready to rock and roll in the very auspicious year of 2030.

So I believe that that entire are- I believe that North Carolina really is on the radar for a lot of the predator class and the technocracy in general.

We know that Bill Gates has land holding.