EXPERT ADVICE

FROM A SUPERSONIC JET PILOT

'I hope kids out there get excited about the new jet and study hard in school, especially maths and science. Before I thought about being a pilot, i wanted to be an aeronautical engineer and design things like this. Nobody told me i could actually fly them. If you want to do it, d'ont let anybody tell you that you can't. Pursue your goals and make a plan.' - Jim Less, deputy chief pilot of NASA. Less will be the first NASA pilot to fly Lockheed Martin's new (quiet) supersonic plane, called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator. For more on the groud-breaking aircraft,