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Boom CEO Puts Up $100K Prize For First Amateur RC Airplane To Break Mach 1, Hours After Dorm-Built Jet Goes Viral

Summary by DroneXL.co
Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl announced a $100,000 prize, $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in Boom stock, for the first amateur-built RC airplane to exceed Mach 1. Scholl posted the challenge on X this morning, July 2, quote-tweeting the dorm-built jet drone that DroneXL covered just hours earlier. “Boom will be offering a prize $50k cash and $50k in Boom stock for the first amateur-built RC airplane to exceed Mach 1,” Scholl wrote, ab…
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DroneXL.co broke the news on Thursday, July 2, 2026.
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