Podcast: Sandro di Natale, HBK

07/15/21 • 24 min

The Aerospace Testing International Podcast

In this month’s podcast I’m talking to Sandro Di Natale, product and application manager from test and measurement company HBK.

Sandro works on static and fatigue testing, wind tunnel testing and iron bird testing in both the aviation and space sectors. His clients include companies like Airbus, IABG, Dynetics, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, and Gulfstream.

Sandro has some really interesting insights during that talk about integration between virtual and physical testing and how software can really complement validation phases in tests. He also has lots of enthusiasm for the aviation sector!

Sandro is also speaking at the Aerospace Testing Symposium in London on the 29th and 30th of September, which is co-located with the London to Sydney: The future of aviation conference.

For more information about those events, for instance you might want to look at the program or register for the event, go to symposium.aerospacetestinginternational.com or email [email protected]

In this month’s podcast I’m talking to Sandro Di Natale, product and application manager from test and measurement company HBK.

Sandro is also speaking at the Aerospace Testing Symposium in London on the 29th and 30th of September, which is co-located with the London to Sydney: The future of aviation conference.

For more information about those events, for instance you might want to look at the program or register for the event, go to symposium.aerospacetestinginternational.com or email [email protected]

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The Aerospace Testing International Podcast - Podcast: Sandro di Natale, HBK

Transcript

Ben Sampson 0:00
Hello, Sandra, thanks for spending some time with me. And could you start a little bit by telling me about HBK? And what you do and how you work with your aerospace clients?

Sandro Di Natale 0:13
Yeah, thanks, Ben, for this opportunity HBK is quite new company, so to say, but we have a long history. So we came out of a merger a few years ago from the old Bruel and Kjaer and HBM, Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik. A Danish and a German company.
So the German part is