Aerospace Engineering, Custom UAVs & Flight Systems Consultancy

Master of Engineering with First Class Honours in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London, receiving the Centenary Prize and the Project Merit Prize for Best Aerospace Dissertation. Completed graduate research at Carnegie Mellon University (4.0 / 4.0 GPA) and won 1st Prize at the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest.

Systems and flight test engineer at Destinus (Payerne Airbase, Switzerland), where he invented and patented the Remote Landing Gear (RLG) system, flight-tested autonomous high-speed prototypes, and commissioned the liquid hydrogen (LH2) test park. Licensed UAV and FPV drone pilot who designs, fabricates, and flight-tests custom high-performance drones and aircraft.

Conventional retractable landing gear adds 4% to 8% dead weight to an aircraft, consumes critical internal fuel volume, and introduces wheel-well thermal sealing vulnerabilities on supersonic and hypersonic airframes.

Invented, engineered, and patented an autonomous ground-assist Remote Landing Gear (RLG) system at Destinus. The RLG acts as a mobile ground cradle that carries the aircraft during takeoff roll and synchronizes beneath the airframe for runway recovery—completely decoupling landing gear loads from the flight vehicle.

• Eliminates Onboard Gear Penalty: Frees internal airframe volume for cryogenic liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellant tanks and removes heavy hydraulic retraction actuators.
• Continuous Thermal Protection: Preserves an unbroken lower fuselage aerodynamic and thermal shield without landing-gear door seams.
• Kinematic & Release Engineering: Designed mechanical retention latches, shock-absorption kinematics, and synchronized release/capture mechanisms validated on active runways.

Design, manufacture, and flight-test custom unmanned aerial vehicles capable of high thrust-to-weight agility, low-latency video transmission, and stable payload operation in demanding flight regimes.

Handled complete mechanical CAD, carbon-fiber frame layup and CNC assembly, brushless propulsion sizing, high-discharge LiPo power distribution, and low-latency RF/video link engineering across multiple generations of custom drones.

• Licensed FPV & UAV Flight Operations: Certified drone and FPV pilot executing high-G aerobatic maneuvers, precision proximity flight, prototype chase/flight testing, and dynamic aerial cinematography.
• Flight Controller & Gyro Filtering: Tuned high-frequency gyro notch filters and PID control loops to eliminate structural resonance and prop-wash oscillations.
• Sensor & Payload Integration: Integrated onboard action cameras, GPS/barometric telemetry, and optical sensing payloads for environmental and infrastructure inspection.

Validate sub-scale autonomous aircraft prototypes (Jungfrau and Eiger) and build Europe’s dedicated private liquid hydrogen (LH2) propulsion test infrastructure toward Mach 5 hydrogen-powered flight.

Served as Systems and Flight Test Engineer at Payerne Airbase, executing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation, runway flight campaigns, real-time telemetry streaming, and cryogenic LH2 test rig commissioning.

• Multi-Cycle Flight Testing: Flight-tested autonomous airframes integrating micro-turbojets, hydrogen afterburners, and Rocket-Assisted Take-Off (RATO) boosters.
• Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) Test Park: Built and commissioned cryogenic storage, vacuum-jacketed transfer lines, boil-off venting, and ATEX/Swiss safety systems at 20 K (-253°C).
• Real-Time Flight Telemetry: Deployed airborne sensor suites and ground-station telemetry pipelines capturing aerothermal, structural, and propulsion data in flight.

Directed multi-disciplinary vehicle design programmes spanning stratospheric solar-powered aircraft, cis-lunar orbital stations, and experimental laboratory aerodynamics.

• ‘Everplane’ Solar-Powered HAPS: Led 20 engineers at Imperial College (advised by Facebook Aquila specialists) to design a 1-month endurance stratospheric UAV powered by ultra-thin solar arrays and regenerative hydrogen fuel cells.
• ‘Arkadiko’ Cis-Lunar Space Station (AIAA SciTech): Led the orbital mechanics, ECLSS, and modular structural design of a cis-lunar outpost published with the AIAA as an early precursor to NASA’s Lunar Gateway; won 1st Prize at the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest (‘Paragon’).
• Cryogenic & Supersonic Lab Testing: Characterized pure Indium alloys down to -200°C in liquid nitrogen (Project Merit Prize for Best Aerospace Dissertation) and conducted subsonic and Mach 2 supersonic wind tunnel testing.