Aerospace

I started my career with the Missile Systems Division of Short Brothers, now Thales Air Defence. During my time there I worked on a number of projects including a novel high velocity missile known as Starstreak.

Starstreak is a shoulder launched ground to air missile, As a supersonic body, kinetic heating was a concern, I modelled the predicted skin temperatures of the body and the subsequent heat conduction into the internal components during the flight profile that guided material selection decisions. The starting point for this was researching work that had originally been done for Concorde by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough.

I also worked on the mechanical release mechanism of the 3 darts sitting on the front of the missile.