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I'm Clayton Meyers I'm the Deputy Project Manager for the Commercial Supersonic Technology project.
My role in the project is to oversee work and preparations for the quiet supersonic mission.
The project team is made up of people from NASA Ames, NASA Armstrong, NASA Langley and NASA Glenn.
The shaping is really the key to our technology in that we create shock waves, a bunch of small ones
that come down in parallel so they don't coalesce and create the big boom boom that you typically
hear with the current military vehicles. To unwind, my wife and i like to walk up to
Huntington Beach which is not very far from where we live. The path we take is about a three mile
walk and we just enjoy stopping and looking at the waves over Lake Erie to see how they're doing it
on a given day. I grew up on a farm in Ohio. We had sheep sometimes. Sometimes we had pig.
Sometimes we had ducks. We had a few geese. We had over 400 acres where the cattle were located.
When you're raising cattle it's like a long-range project they just don't typically grow up quickly,
the hard work I think the perseverance helped. You know you're going to start things you're going to
tackle problems and then you're going to go tackle the next set of problems. When I was
growing up on the farm I would occasionally take walks out in the field and I would look up and see
contrails that were left by the aircraft at high altitudes and i'd be fascinated by them and so
that's what got me interested in aviation. The NASA quiet supersonic mission is the first of its
kind. I've been at NASA for 38 years and i haven't seen anything like this. I'm excited to come to
work every day and interact with the people that are on the team. When the X-59 flies it will be
a very rewarding experience built upon decades of people's work coming to fruition and I'll be,
i'm just very proud to be a part of it all. It's going to be a very exciting time!