Richard Lugg - Aviation entrepreneur

When you claim to have an engine design that will enable flights from London to New York in less than two hours, you need the right credentials to back you up. And when you also say your aircraft will fly at almost four times the speed of sound without creating a sonic boom and that it will produce a fraction of the emissions of current planes, you should be prepared for more than a little scepticism. For the man behind the HyperMach Sonic Star project, none of this is a problem.

Richard Lugg’s plans may be ambitious, but he has reasons to be self assured. His CV includes time working on the Space Shuttle and cruise missiles for the US Air Force. He boasts NASA, Lockheed Martin and Boeing as previous clients. He has expertise not only in engine and aircraft design, but also composites, power electronics, alternative energy and nano-scale heating and cooling systems.