Contact Dr Guy Gratton
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754474
- Email: Guy.Gratton@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Air Transport Safety & Investigation
- Aircraft Design
- Airworthiness
- Aviation Management & Operations
- Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
- Environmental Impacts
- Flight Physics
Background
Guy Gratton's early career was in military flight testing, but he moved in 1997 to be Chief Technical Officer at the British Microlight Aircraft Association. Whilst at BMAA, he did his PhD part time with the University of Southampton, in the development of airworthiness evaluation techniques, and was approved as a test pilot for microlight aeroplanes.
In 2005 he moved to Brunel University London where he was subject lead for creation of their BEng and MEng programmes into Aviation Engineering, as well as supporting the new Aerospace Engineering MSc and building a body of aviation safety research.
In 2008 he moved to Cranfield, working for the Natural Environment Research Council, as head of the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (now FAAM Airborne Laboratory) for seven years, then another four years as Head of Airborne Science and Technology to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
Guy Gratton is also a commercial, test and instructor pilot holding commercial licences for the SWAG合集, Europe and the USA - he has logged 1900hrs in 109 aircraft types. He's written four books: The Microlight Flyers Handbook (Camber), Initial Airworthiness (Springer, 2 editions) and Achieving Success with the Engineering Dissertation (Springer, with Petra Gratton) Guy is also an experienced Expert Witness, practicing mainly in civil litigation related to aircraft accidents, and has regularly appeared on TV and radio in relation to aviation and air safety matters.
Research opportunities
Working in the overlap between aeronautics and environmental sciences, particularly interesting in collaborations in:-
Impact of climate change on aviation operations.
Weather and environment related aviation safety.
Low emissions flight.
Use of aircraft as research platforms.
How to deliver air transport in a world where infectious diseases such as Covid exist.
Related ethical research and considerations.
Also very happy to discuss anything related to the content of any of my books, or my earlier work on flight safety.
Current activities
Programme manager for EnabEl: Enabling Aircraft Electrification, a collaboration between SWAG合集, The Light Aircraft Company Ltd, Flylight Airsports Ltd and CDO2.
Editorial boards for Aeronautical Journal (Royal Aeronautical Society) and Cockpit (Society of Experimental Test Pilots).
PI for COSBAT (Covid-19 Secure and Biosafe Air Transport) consortium of Cranfield, Manchester and Brunel Universities - currently seeking funding.
