Guy Gratton

Guy Gratton

Associate Professor of Aviation and the Environment, Cranfield University

Guy Gratton is a chartered aeronautical and mechanical engineer, with extensive experience across aircraft design, certification, operations and testing. He also holds a Commercial Pilots Licence, with test pilot and instructor qualifications.

Guy works at Cranfield University in the overlaps between aviation, and environmental science; he's also a visiting senior research fellow at Brunel University.

He has previously worked on departures from controlled flight, flight test technique development, and airborne research practices. Building on an early professional career in military flight testing, then light and microlight aeroplane testing and certification, his PhD was in the development of flight test techniques.