Podcast: Dr Michael Smart, Hypersonix Launch Systems

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06/16/21 • 26 min

The Aerospace Testing International Podcast

In this month's podcast we preview our forthcoming event London to Sydney in Five Hours: The Future of Aviation by talking to one of the speakers – Dr Michael Smart, head of research and co-founder of Hypersonix Launch Systems.
Dr Smart is one of the world's leading experts in scramjet technology and for 10 years was a research scientist at the Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch of NASA’s Langley Research Center. He was also professor and chair of hypersonic propulsion at the University of Queensland in Australia.

This a great discussion about hypersonic propulsion, the technology that is enabling advances now and the challenges it poses for engineers.
London to Sydney in Five Hours: The Future of Aviation is co-located with the first Aerospace Testing Symposium. Both are being held in London on the 29th and 30th of September. The conferences will also be available online if you can’t make it to London.

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The Aerospace Testing International Podcast - Podcast: Dr Michael Smart, Hypersonix Launch Systems

Transcript

Ben Sampson 0:12

Hello, and thanks for downloading the aerospace testing podcast I'm ATI's editor Ben Sampson. And in this month's podcast I talked to Dr. Michael Smart head of research and co founder of Hypersonix, the Australia based developer of hypersonic vehicles and scramjet engines.

Dr. Smart is one of the world's leading experts in scramjet technology, and for 10 years was a research scientist at the hypersonic air breathing propulsion branch of NASA's Langley Research Cen