We are changing what is possible with propulsion in aviation.
Achieving a step change in efficiency is challenging. The greatest challenge is not the new technology itself, it’s breaking through a hundred years of institutional assumptions.
We do not perform magic, it just appears to be that way. We looked at the same problems as the industry did, but we avoided being guided by the constraints of legacy assumptions.
One of the toughest aspects of our work has been the correlation of our physical testing of phenomena and reconciling that with the expectations of academic science.
We started from a suspicion, one where the industry had examined and discarded a particular effect without fully considering what might be possible; from there, practical experimentation seemed to be the logical next step. We then spent the last 30-odd years working out why we see what we see in the experimentation results.
Today, we have a good understanding of what happens, we can model it, we can do the mathematics, and we can predict outcomes quite accurately.
Sincerely, Peter Ireland, CEO.
Technology Background Pages
This Technology Backgrounder is broken down into varying levels, designed to ease the reader into the subject. There is nothing inherently difficult about the science of aerodynamics, but the explanations can get unwieldy.