Stuart Mackrell

Stuart is a founding Director of Origin Safety. He started his career as an apprentice aircraft fitter (airframes/engines) at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (1984-1988). Working after this across the UK and Europe, he eventually became a certifying line engineer at London Heathrow for 7 years with KLM, holding an EASA Part-66 B1 license with multiple aircraft types.

In 2008 Stuart joined QinetiQ at MOD Boscombe Down to work in aircraft test, initially as a trials officer conducting independent technical evaluation of Typhoon flight control and landing gear systems, before transferring to safety engineering, rotary wing in 2010. Since then Stuart has continued to work in various safety engineering capacities,
gaining experience as an Independent Safety Auditor and safety case author, mainly on military air domain projects with some exposure to land and maritime systems as well.

Stuart has helped develop the safety cases for a number of novel projects, including Aireon’s Space Based ADS-B which provides an aircraft tracking capability globally, and Airbus Zephyr, a record breaking solar-electric high-altitude long endurance UAV. He has a first class Bachelor’s degree in Aircraft Engineering, a Master’s in Safety and Accident Investigation (Air Transport) and is a Chartered Engineer.