RAeS Lecture: Another Giant Leap for Mankind, Padhraic Kelleher MSc FRAeS CAA
Remarkable advances in aviation during the first half of the 20th century helped drive the emergence of commercial aviation. In the second half of the century, mankind continued to make giant leaps to go higher, further and faster and to do so ever more safely, securely and affordably. As we consider the world around us today, are we living through another giant leap for mankind and are we ready for what lies ahead?
| Padhraic Kelleher is a Senir Adviser at the UK Civil Aviation Authority working with Board members to position the regulator for a changing world. Over the course of more than 30 years at the CAA, he has led teams addressing safety strategy and policy, airworthiness, industry innovation and international relations and has covered commercial and recreational aviation; ex-military and unmanned aircraft; commercial spaceflight and cybersecurity.
Padhraic has served as President of the Air Navigation Commission at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) overseeing the development of standards for international aviation safety and air navigation. He has also served as a Director of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and of CAA subsidiaries CAA International and Air Safety Support International.
His early regulatory career focussed on airworthiness type certification of Airbus, Boeing and Canadair types building on industry experience as a certification flight test engineer at British Aerospace plc. Padhraic holds a first class honours degree in electronic engineering from Ireland’s University of Galway, a Master’s degree in aerodynamics and flight control from Cranfield University and postgraduate qualifications in management and company direction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. |
