Watch these videos to find out more about what it is like to work as part of the ThrustWSH team, what excites the members of the team and what mathematics they use. Would you like to be part of an exciting project like ThrustWSH?

What sort of people do you think are needed to work on this project? In this video we’re going to here from a give people who will tell us about their role on the team. A project such as ThrustWSH is more than just an idea that can be turned into reality and we’re going to hear first from Lorne Campell who is a boat designer and explains why experience matters in the early stages and how the project ended up considering hydrofoils as a solution to speed. We will hear more about hydrofoils in a later video, but the expert in this area is Butch Dalrymple-Smith who explains his slightly unusual career path and tells us what it is like to work on a project where things don’t always turn out the way we expect. Of course, an important part of any vehicle is the engine and Dick Barton tells us what his time in the RAF has taught him and what skills are needed in the project team. Learning what woks is done through building models and Leonard Newton tells us something about this. And finally we meet Matthew Kear who works on the electronics and tells us what life is like this project. Do you think it is mainly sitting at a computer? Listen to Matthew to find out. 


Video 1 – Working on the ThrustWSH project - To be added here.

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For many people working on the project it is the novel technology of super-cavitating hydrofoils which excites them. Are you interested in what this technology is and why the team are so excited about it? Listen again to Butch who tells us why hydrofoils are important for this project and Matthew who explains why it is his favourite part of the project. We also meet Colin Hales who is an aeronautical engineer, both he and Dick talk about the excitement of working on hydrofoils. What excites you about a project you might be working on?

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Many things on the project involve a lot of technical work. Do you think you need to know a lot of complicated mathematics to work on a project like this? The next video features Andrew Bradley who is considered to be the technical lead for the project and then James Morton who is the project engineer, before you listen to the video guess which one might use the more complicated mathematics. Were you correct? What about some of the members of the team you’ve already met, what mathematics do you think Butch, Matthew and Dick use? Mathematics is important in any engineering project, but often you don’t realise you are using very simple mathematics when contributing to these projects. 


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Of course no-one can work on a project like ThrustWSH alone, but what does it mean to work as part of a team? Listen to Len and Dick explaining what working on the ThrustWSH is like, while Lorne, Colin and Mike explain why teamwork is so important. What do you think makes a good team? 


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If you want to hear more from the team involved in ThrustWSH, then you can watch more videos here. You can also see more videos from Karl Schneidau, who filmed the content above here.