Professional Activities
I have always been a strong supporter of the engineering community, and have served on
a number of advisory panels and technical working groups over the years.
The list below summarises my professional activities to date.
The list below summarises my professional activities to date.
Present Professional Membership
Chartered Engineer
Fellow : Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow : Royal Aeronautical Society
Senior Life Member : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Member : Vertical Flight Society
Previous Professional Membership
Member : Chartered Institute of Egonomics and Human Factors, 2016-2021
Member : American Helicopter Society, 1999-2010
Member : South African Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, 1986-1997
Membership of Technical Panels
Council Member : South African Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, 1996-1997
Member : GARTEUR Action Group HC-AG 17 Rotor Wake Modelling in the Presence of Ground Obstacles, 2008-2010 (Chair 2009-2010)
Member : HART-II International Workshop
Member : Royal Aeronautical Society Rotorcraft Committee, 2008-2010, 2023-present
Member : American Helicopter Society Aerodynamics Committee, 2005-2010 (Vice-Chair 2009-2010)
Member : AIAA Hypersonics HYTASP Conference Organising Committee
Member : AIAA Hypersonics Technical Group
Member : Dstl Hypersonic Aerodynamics Working Group
Chair : UK Hypersonics Alliance, 2011-2012
Participant : UK Space Agency Roadmapping Workshop, September 2010
Participant : UK Space Agency Skylon Review Workshop, Harwell, 20-21 September 2010
UK academic community representative : European Space Agency Aerothermodynamics Harmonisation Exercise, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 17 April 2012
UK representative : European Commission hearing on future hypersonic flight test programmes, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
Participant : UK Civil Aviation Authority consultations in the field of spaceplane regulation, 2013
Academic representative : Consultation on Future Aerospace Research, UK Parliament, July 2013.
Membership of Conference Panels
Organising Committee : 3rd International Conference on Rotorcraft Technology, Nanjing, China, October 2009
Organising Committee : 2nd International Conference on Rotorcraft Multidisciplinary Technology, Seoul, Korea, October 2009
Organising Committee : 18th AIAA/3AF International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference,
Tours, France, 24-28 September 2012
Organising Committee : 19th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference,
Atlanta GA, USA, 16-20 June 2014
Organising Committee : 20th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference,
Glasgow, Scotland, 6-9 July 2015
Membership of Editorial Panels
Associate Editor : Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 2008 - 2013
Associate Editor : Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 2004 - 2010
Advisory Roles
Professorial Search and Appointments Committee, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2009
External Assessor, Aerospace Department, University of Bristol, 2009
External Assessor, Professorial promotions panel, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
External Assessor, Professorial promotions panel, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, 2008, 2009
Judge of Agusta-Westland Finmeccanica Innovation award, 2009, 2010
Media Roles
Advisor to Discovery Channel television programme: 'The Science of James Bond,' 2003
Advisor to BBC2 television programme: 'Building the Impossible,' 2003
Advisor to SABC television programme: 'Where Angels Tread,' 1993-1994
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