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foreign

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of African-American history month NASA

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salutes the contributions of African

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Americans to the cause of space

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exploration aerodynamics is fascinating

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to me just the philosophy of

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aerodynamics saying that that led me to

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aeronautics

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and of course the faster things go the

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cooler it is

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name is Larry quiet I'm an aerospace

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engineer at Nasa Dryden flight Research

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I work in the research aerodynamics

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Branch doing mostly supersonic research

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on supersonic flight specifically Sonic

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Boom research

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ongoing effort to mitigate the sonic

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boom to allow over the land supersonic

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transportation for civilians

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both my parents were in the Air Force

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and as far as I can remember the day my

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mom and dad brought me home a model

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model toy replica of a B2 bomber was the

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day I first got any interest in

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Aeronautics or Aerospace period

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I became a graduate student at Georgia

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Tech and there decided to do a co-op

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rotation somewhere the first place on my

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you know everybody knows about this big

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centers Johnson's Kennedys and

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everything but found out that there was

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a center that actually specifically did

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what I was wanting to do my focus at the

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time was high-speed aerodynamics which

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is Aeronautics and and and Dryden did

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just that NASA Dryden this is NASA

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ground I'd like to know whether you had

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any fuel left for perhaps a foxtrot run

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just this past year I was a principal

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investigator for the whisper project I'm

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a community response test for Sonic

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I'm frame we tried to do a range of

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Sonic booms not only in that range but

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we also tried to start with you a little

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so it was really fulfilling to see it

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out to see it to its end and to see how

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successful it was one of the things that

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brought me here is I wanted to be an

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innovator and I think that nearly

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anybody that works at Nasa kind of keeps

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their mind open to pursue goals and

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tasks that no other company is doing no

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their agency is doing so if you keep an

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open mind and if you have the desire to

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work outside of the box not just think

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outside the box but to do things that