Our principal consultant, Steve Dosman, FRAeS, has spent over 15 years as a Design Organisation Team Lead with drawing and report Approval, has been a CVE for over 14 years, and over 20 years actively supporting the continuing structural integrity of many of the RAF's fixed wing fleets.

With over 23 years experience in support of a wide variety of fixed-wing aircraft types, for both military and civilian customers, AV8R Consulting can provide expertise in many areas including:

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1. What lessons can Design Organisations learn from the Marine Corps Yanky 72, KC-130T tragedy? 
2. 737 Max and EASA “Level of Involvement” 
3. Who Assures the Assurers? Cognitive Bias in Aircraft Certification and Safety 
4. Rapid Frequency Domain Vibration Analysis – Part 1 – Fatigue Data 
5. Rapid Frequency Domain Vibration Analysis – Part 2 – Mode Shape Approximations 
6. Rapid Frequency Domain Vibration Analysis – Part 3 – Method and Verification 
7. Rapid Frequency Domain Vibration Analysis – Part 4 – General Method 
8. A way to explain lift to the layperson 
9. The Joint Authorities' view on the FAA - Synopsis of the Executive Summary of the JATR of the Boeing 737 MAX Flight Control System 
10. A Swiss Cheese Model of Lion Air Flight 610 
11. Use and Abuse of the Stress Severity Factor 
12. Practical Operational Loads Measurement and Edge Cases 
13. Black swans and fatigue failures 
14. How do you change a culture? 
15. Scheduling inspections using Damage Tolerance methods – A Primer 
16. All You Need is LoV – Part 1, a brief history of aircraft lifing 
17. All you need is LoV – Part 2, how to define the life limit 
18. What does "Analysis Supported by Test" actually mean?