A Career Built on Flying Models

摘要

How did flying radio-controlled (RC) airplanes prepare you for your job? Being around model airplanes exposed me to all the technology-the components, the electronics. That was hugely beneficial in school because the senior capstone project at North Carolina State University, where I received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, is to design and build a radio-controlled airplane for a specific mission. And I had done all of that. So I took the knowledge that I gained in classes for aerodynamic analysis and the engineering behind it, but I already knew all about how to build the airplane and set everything up to make it work.