Don Durston was obsessed with building model planes as a kid, and he never grew out of it. His models are just a whole lot more sophisticated these days!
Growing up, he assembled plastic models of various airplanes, from a Cessna 172 to an Air Force F-4 Phantom. And when he heard real fighter jets pass overhead at supersonic speeds, the sonic booms they produced got him excited about studying how airplanes fly.
Today, Durston, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, leads the agency’s wind tunnel testing for sonic boom research under the Commercial Supersonic Technology project. He is pictured here in October 2021 with a model he helped design of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft, made ready for testing in the 8- by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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