How did you get into aviation? I grew up with the sound of military jets that flew over our house every day and fascinated me. My boyhood dream was to become a jet pilot but I did not make it through the selection procedure. The kerosene in the blood remained, and I decided to study aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology. My master's thesis - as part of the ECATA [European Consortium for Advanced Training in Aerospace] junior multinational team project at DaimlerBenz Aerospace in Munich - was my entry into the aerospace business in 1995, and into the world of what today we call Airbus.
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