A version of this article first appeared in the September 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here At the end of August I spent a couple of hours with Sam Bousfield and Senior Engineer Dana Beebe at their Prineville hangar. We had a wide ranging technical conversation and I was impressed with the level of detail and […]

We have been working our way through the beam analysis methods of in the NASA-TM-73305. analysis manual. This last set of spreadsheets is for combined compression and flexure of simple beams and have been authored by my talented daughter who is an engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto. I have checked than so any remaining mistakes are […]

A version of this article first appeared in the August 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here I always thought the concept of freedom of speech was non political. I thought it was essential for a healthy society in the same way it is essential for a healthy organization. It is my assessment […]

We are working with several companies and organizations on regulatory compliance for both designing and operating unmanned aerial vehicles, both above and below the 55lb weight limit. There are several things that immediately become apparent

A version of this article first appeared in the July 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here In the last couple of years there have been a number of new aircraft projects in the UK. I Have been involved with some of them and it has been interesting to see the progress and […]

A version of this article first appeared in the July 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here One of my favourite aircraft is the Saab 35 Draken which was a groundbreaking Swedish aircraft manufactured in the 1950’s and 60’s. It remained in service until the late 90’s with the Danish and Swedish air […]

A version of this article first appeared in the July 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here We have formally established our scholarship fund with the University College of the Cayman Islands. The fund is targeted at students who have not qualified for any other award, who have enthusiasm and ability but may struggle […]

A version of this article first appeared in the July 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here We have been invited to participate in a working group in the Cayman Islands to examine using the airport at Cayman Brac as a unrestricted UAV test cell. Over the last year, as we have had […]

A version of this article first appeared in the July 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here I was asked this question this month “Where would you certify an aircraft if you had a choice?”. My answer was instinctively “Brazil”. We have done studies to determine what factors make aircraft programs successful. In […]

A version of this article first appeared in the June 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here This month I have been doing some work on the manned aerospace market. For those of us with an involvement in the market it is interesting to go through the numbers. There is good data […]

A version of this article first appeared in the January 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here I have been working with a company just getting to the end of their prototype design phase. They have yet to fly one of the prototypes and their engineering team is working very hard to release […]

A version of this article first appeared in the February 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here On one of our projects we have been analysing the major sub assemblies using sub assembly finite element models. Once the general design is frozen we will bring all these models together to create the […]

A version of this article first appeared in the May 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here So you have engineered, built and flown your prototype aircraft. It has provided the metrics that you see looking for and the investors are happy. You now have to take all of the lessons learned […]

This article first appeared in the May 2018 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here As part of the white paper I wrote on the aerial urban mobility market I had the chance to review over 60 concepts. Most of which rely on lift rotors, or vectored thrust, for some of their flight envelope. In […]

Friends, partners and clients, We have moved our physical location in the Cayman Islands. Please make sure all physical correspondence is sent to the address below. Please update your records with the following: Abbott Aerospace SEZC Ltd, Cayman Enterprise City The Strathvale House, 90 North Church Street, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands   Our regular snail-mail PO box is […]

We have been working out way through the beam analysis methods of in the NASA-TM-73305. analysis manual. This latest set of spreadsheets is for combined tension and flexure of simple beams and have been authored by my talented daughter who is an engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto. I have checked than so any remaining mistakes are […]

We have developed a tool for risk analysis for Aerial Urban Mobility Concepts and have ranked the Top 5 design concepts using this unique risk analysis method. The spreadsheet tool and white paper are made freely available from our website here. This is an extract from the white paper: At the start of any technological […]

This article first appeared in the December 2017 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here   In December I flew to Redmond Oregon to spend some quality time with the Stratos Aircraft project. Nirav Shukla and I have worked on the production version of the wing for the Stratos 714 jet and the wing test article has been […]

This article first appeared in the November 2017 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here We have had the good fortune to work on many programs when they are in the early stages of development. This involves working on the prototype design and build. I have touched on this subject in previous articles but […]

This article first appeared in the December 2017 edition of our free newsletter, to subscribe click here So we flew back from Canada to Cayman after Christmas. I travel a lot; to and from the US, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Airports suffer from greater and lesser degrees of design and operational competence in their layout […]