...that I wanted to be an airplane designer?
This was a question posed by my professional society, the American Institue of Aeronautics and Astronautics or AIAA for brevity, to its membership. A year ago I was at a conference in Reno where they had a video booth set up to interview volunteers willing to talk about what influences played a part in them becoming rocket scientists and airplane designers. Being the shrinking violet that I am, I signed up for this experiment and chatted with the interviewer for maybe 10 minutes. I then never heard a thing until December, when I got an email to say the project was done and being launched on their website. The result is fifty-something clips of interviews that take the heart of each person's story. Mine made the cut and you can see it by going here or clicking on the picture below, then looking for my name (David Paisley) about two thirds of the way down and to the right.
I think they did a spectacular job with the whole thing. If you're motivated to check out the background to my story you could go here or here or here.
