Oct 2026
QinetiQ
Helicopter Engineering Day
Half day, 27 Oct 2026. QinetiQ landed a helicopter on site, ran a short engineering exercise and took us round the aircraft.
Log entry, with video →
Experience
Flight test, industry, workshop and competition work, most recent first.
01 · Timeline
Jun 2026
National Flying Laboratory Centre · Cranfield partnership
Flight Test Engineer, Saab 340B
Studied phugoid, short-period and other dynamic modes in real flight. Feeling those responses from the cabin, with the load swinging from around 2 g to near 0 g, made stability theory physical in a way no simulator had.
Jun 2025
CEMAST
Engineering Practical Training
Turning, milling, hand skills, motor maintenance, pipework, soldering, gearbox strip and rebuild, sheet metal. Also machine-shop trained at Southampton (lathe, milling, FDM).
2025
UK Space Design Competition
Operations Sub-team
5-person operations team inside a 50-person team at Southampton’s internal qualifying round (Mars logistics brief). I gave other sub-teams yes/no feasibility calls on supply routes and logistics. We didn’t advance, but it was good practice at fast cross-team gatekeeping.
Year 12
NASA Johnson Space Center · Houston
Engineering & Space Training Programme
Competitive selection. 2nd place in both the Thermal Tile Challenge and the Rocket Building Challenge (out of about 10 teams). Built and launched a model rocket independently. Touring the facilities, and standing next to a Falcon 9 and a Saturn V, re-energised me about aerospace. In the Thermal Tile Challenge our team took a different approach from everyone else, and it worked.
2022–23
Airbus ZEROe
Virtual Work Experience
Explored zero-emission concepts including the blended wing body.
Jul 2022
Leonardo UK · Yeovil
Work Experience, AW101 Merlin
One-week placement in the AW101 Merlin production environment. Manufactured wiring looms and contributed to sustainable rotor-blade development, toured production and systems engineering, and ended with a group presentation proposing a new helicopter concept. Seeing how many parts, machines and tests go into a single helicopter, down to the rotor blades, turned me from a ‘planes person’ into someone who’d happily work on helicopters too.
02 · Education
2024–present
MEng Aeronautics and Astronautics with Industrial Placement Year
University of Southampton. On track for a high 2:1.
Year 3 modules: Aerothermodynamics, Advanced Aeronautics, Advanced Aerospace Mechanics and Control, Management and Law for Aerospace Engineers, Individual Project.
Graduated 2024
The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells
A-Levels: Maths A · Further Maths B · Physics A · Chemistry A
03 · Leadership
Year 12–13
Co-founder & joint leader, Aerospace and Astrophysics Society. Ran weekly sessions and delivered most of them.
School
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, including about 12 months volunteering at Oxfam. Combined Cadet Force, Years 9–11.
04 · Awards
Physics
Physics Olympiad Gold (Y13), Bronze (Y12)
Chemistry
Cambridge Chemistry Challenge Silver
Maths
Senior Maths Challenge Gold + Kangaroo Merit
Maths
Intermediate Maths Challenge Gold + Pink Kangaroo
GCSE
GCSE Maths a year early (Grade 9)