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Conceptual
Design
- Establishment of Requirements
- Technical
Specifications
- Design Configuration
- Test Schedules
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Procedural Methods
Expert Witness
- Independent Assessments
- Review of Requirements
- Mathematical analysis
- Conclusive Reports
Specific Activities
Design engineering of aircraft structural and mechanical constituent components together with project management for manufacture, installation and test.
Structural integrity audits and airworthiness reviews.
Review of fatigue damage and corrosion detected on aircraft arising from application of Service Bulletins and Airworthiness Directives (SBs & ADs).
Conceptual design of repairs to damaged flawed structural and mechanical aerospace components.
Design and manufacture of, and safety assessments to, ground support/maintenance equipment including servicing platforms.
Assessment of specifications and quotations for owners specified modifications and servicing requirements.
Reviews of statements of compliance/Type Records for airworthiness requirements.
Design, manufacture and installation of suspension systems for, and modification to, aerospace vehicles for static display in museum buildings.
Refurbishment of vintage aircraft, missiles, rockets and other aerospace vehicles.
Compilation of compliance documents.
Military/Civil airworthiness requirements. |
Apprenticed at Short Bros. Rochester in 1935. Workshop and design office training followed by various senior design positions including Chief of Stress and Airworthiness, culminating as Executive Director and Chief Designer of Marshall of Cambridge; responsible for design, certification and flight test of many projects including Tristar freighter conversion, Concorde droop nose and visor, air to air refuelling conversions, space lab mission payloads, fatigue life evaluation and testing, structural audits and airworthiness certifications.
Author of several published papers on aerospace subjects including prize winning paper on physiological effects of weightlessness.
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