Managing Director
Michael Goodisman
D.Phil (Oxon) Turbine Turbobrake Systems
As an aeronautical engineer, Michael worked for 7 years at Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd on a number of aircraft programmes with an emphasis on aerodynamics and later in a marketing role.
Michael worked for one year as an engineering consultant with TIL Defence Systems Consultants Ltd, Israel where he advised a design team from a large OEM how to convert their level 3 production drawings and quality control documentation from European standards to US standards. He successfully guided this part of their project through a preliminary design review.
Michael spent 3 years at The Osney Laboratory, University of Oxford where his doctoral project was to develop a 2.3MW (0.690m diameter) airbrake rotor “Turbobrake” capable of keeping a full size (0.604m diameter) gas turbine rotor stage running at a constant 9,500 rpm during a 0.5s flow pulse. This rotating section has been running successfully for over 30 years as part of the Oxford Turbine Research Facility.
His research included proof of concept 0.17 scale model design and testing, design of the full size Turbobrake blisk and its power control system, design of full size turbine disc and blade roots (blade profiles provided by customer), design of shrouds capable of containing high energy fragments from bursting of one or both rotor discs. Michael also designed a variant of the Turbobrake, an axial flow dynamometer, which later became an undergraduate 4th year project including test rig proof of concept.
Michael has over 20 years experience (UK based) within the air cargo industry. He represented Antonov Airlines, a Ukrainian airline offering charter flights using its fleet of AN-124, AN-225 and AN-22 aircraft to deliver outsized, project cargo worldwide. Antonov Airlines had, since its establishment in 1989, worked through a single UK based “worldwide territory” general sales and service agent or a UK based joint venture. During 2018 and 2019, in the role of business development director, Michael collected three awards on behalf of the airline. From March 2020, Antonov Airlines has operated independently of UK assistance.
Michael has since focused on progressing the thin flame arrester innovation as part of Lifting Gas Ltd, a company he founded in 2018.
Michael obtained a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering at University of Bath in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy D.Phil in Turbine Turbobrake Systems at the University of Oxford in 1991
Email: michael.goodisman@liftinggas.com