Joe Piotrowski, Jr.: One Engineer’s (Flight) Path to Airborne Science – NASA
Based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Joe Piotrowski is the lead operations engineer for the King Air and C-20A aircraft. He ensures the aircraft are safe to fly, overseeing everything from installing instruments to actual flight. Beyond monitoring aircraft maintenance, he determines which modifications the planes need for science experiments, and … Read more