Norman Wood

Available to advise and consult on a wide variety of aviation topics including the use of hydrogen and cryogenics to deliver true zero emission flight.

I built an overall aircraft design capability that previously did not exist in GKN. My team developed hydrogen fuel cell aircraft concepts that were sufficiently detailed so as to identify requirements for all the internal components of the powertrain.

Our aircraft concepts have received worldwide attention as we have extended the payload and range capability towards a single aisle replacement aircraft.

Led numerous international and UK based research programmes culminating with the BLADE laminar flow demonstrator activity funded by Clean Sky 1.

Identified, conducted and analysed numerous flight test activities on the majority of the Airbus portfolio. Tests were constructed to identify the root cause of a variety of in-service and developmental issues.

Led the Manchester School of Engineering for 6 years and successfully completed an improvement in the RAE rating up to Grade 5 within that period.

Led a unique research group that developed novel control effectors for aircraft and a number of innovative flow control concepts.

Designed and implemented a new undergraduate degree programme that focused on Problem Based Learning.

Designed and conducted numerous wind tunnel campaigns in conjunction with NASA Ames Research Centre.

Co-supervised PhD students within the Department of Aero/Astro at Stanford.