The Aerospace Testing International Podcast

In this month's podcast we preview our forthcoming event London to Sydney in Five Hours: The Future of Aviation by talking to one of the speakers – Dr Michael Smart, head of research and co-founder of Hypersonix Launch Systems. Dr Smart is one of the world's leading experts in scramjet technology and for 10 years was a research scientist at the Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch of NASA’s Langley Research Center. He was also professor and chair of hypersonic propulsion at the U...

In this episode ATI chats to Jason Chua, co-founder and COO of Universal Hydrogen, a hydrogen logistics company for aviation based in California that was founded last year. During April the company, which is developing modular hydrogen storage and infrastructure technology raised more than US$20 million in funding. As well as creating the infrastructure for transporting hydrogen fuel to aircraft, the company is also developing a retrofit kit to modify regional airpla...

In this episode of the Aerospace Testing International podcast, we talk to Andrew Patton, who sits on the advisory board of ZeroAvia, a company that is developing the world’s first ‘practical’ hydrogen powertrain for use in aircraft. Andrew has a flight test background, having started his career with Boeing’s Tactical Aircraft Flight Test group, where he was assigned to the Navy in support of F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18 Growler development programs. He then worked for several years in Sili...

Iris Automation is a safety company developing Detect-and-Avoid systems that enable aircraft manufacturers to integrate Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations for drones. The company is pushing the boundaries of not just sensing and computing to develop Detect-and-Avoid (DAA), but also aerospace testing and certification methods. It has established an early lead in deployment of its Casia DAA system for drones in the USA and is involved in several trials and testing program...

In this special podcast we focus on the US defense sector and telemetry with Derek Hinton, chair of the ITC – the International Telemetry Conference. Derek is an expert in his field – during this 30 minute interview we discuss what attracts engineers into telemetry, the unique challenges they face, and some of the latest technology that’s being tested, such as hypersonic missiles. The ITC conference is held annually – apart from this year because of Covid-19 – as a forum for suppliers...

In this second in our series of podcasts with company's testing innovative aircraft at Aerospace Testing International, we talk to Jean Botti, CEO of French aircraft-development company VoltAero. VoltAero is one of a handful of companies doing what many others just talk about - developing a hybrid-electric aircraft. The company plans for its Cassio aircraft, which has been flight tested in electric mode, to begin commercial operations in late 2022, just 2 years away. Available in 4,6 a...