Microjet UAV Ltd

Turbine Technology

Overview of Product Range

Turbo-Jet Engines - 15 to 150 lbs
Turbo-Shaft Engines
Turbo-Prop Enginees
Consultancy on all aspects of Microturbine Technology
Bespoke Engine Design
Prototype Engine Builds
Microturbines
Heat/Power Applications
Propulsion Solutions
VTOL Solutions
Power Generation

Microjet do far more than just build their own current engine range. Our Consultancy service has been of assistance to many projects, unfortunately we are not in a position to release details of most of these, however details of the BAE and LOCAAS programmes are in the public domain.

The dedicated development team have over 53 years of practical engineering, microturbine and combustion experience . Our vast knowledge of design and manufacture in the micro-turbine field has enabled us to expand our product range, which now includes; heat/power applications; drones/UAV's and small missile engines; exhaust ducts; helicopter engines with integral gearbox; pulse jets, and engines for small aviation craft.

We have worked alongside many international companies and system designers to provide custom solutions and precision engineering for their micro-turbine needs. Microjet can provide engine development programs to meet specific customer requirements. One example of such a collaboration is as follows:- Microjet assisted in a BAE project to investigate HGI (Hot Gas Ingestion). Professor Xu and Paul Ford of Microjet designed and manufactured a TPS (turbine-powered simulator) bespoke unit. The TPS unit was designed to simulate the lift fan. The resulting equipment was used to evaluate the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter model.

The TPS unit was designed by the Microjet design team - Paul Ford and Professor Liping Xu (University of Cambridge). Peter Curtis of BAE Systems is currently preparing a paper on the project.

Microjet are always pleased to consult on this type of project. For further information please email us your requirements via

Microjet are based in the UK, near Cambridge. We are well placed for access to good road, rail and air transportation links; our location also allows close links with local academic institutes and companies dealing in cutting edge R&D technology - including the University of Cambridge `Whittle' Laboratory.

Who are Microjet UAV Ltd - What happened to Microjet Engineering?

The Story So Far

Microjet Engineering (Ltd), now in liquidation, was formed by Paul Ford and one other gentleman who cannot be named here for legal purposes. They were 50% shareholders and Co-Directors in their joint enterprise. They each brought to the company various skills and resouces in a bid to take their ideas for gas turbine engines forwards into bigger and better market places via a Limited Company. Paul Ford had been involved for many years in the world of combustion via his work at the University of Cambridge, Whittle Laboratories, and subsequently at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Combustion Lab.

As Co-Directors both were equally involved in the research, design and building and sale of the Microjet range of jet engines, for example the Phoenix, Condor, HF engine range, APS engine range, plus Turbo-Jet and Turbo-Shaft engines. They were also investigating with the rest of the team various research and design projects, e.g. The 650 lb Turbo-Fan, 350 lb Turbo-Fan and the Turbo-Prop.

Obviously it would be foolish for any one person to take credit for an entire range which had clearly been produced by a design team, with the assistance of external specialists and consultants, experts in their fields (e.g., ECU programming). Also the people behind the design team, running the Company and generally oiling the wheels of industry also form part of the equation in such a venture. Latterly a third designer came on board to join Paul Ford and his Co-Director. The new designer is a world expert in his field and is accredited with many spectacular design projects in his own right. He was co-designer with Paul Ford of the Tip Turbine developed for the BAE Joint Strike Fighter project, details of which are shown below in a previous update, and a PDF file is available upon request.

Following the departure of one of the Directors in 2005, the Company went through a difficult period of change. Due to the complex legalities of Company Law ultimately Microjet Engineering Ltd (in liquidation) were forced to take the difficult decision of liquidation. The remaining sole Director, Paul Ford thus purchased from the liquidators the rights to all the Microjet Engineering Ltd (in liquidation) designs, goodwill, logo, name, in fact all designs, research projects, etc are now the sole property of Microjet UAV Ltd. No other company has the legal right to use this brand or these designs. Any questions relating to their legal sole right to use these design should be directed to the Liquidators, details of whom are available upon request.

Design work has continued unhindered throughout this period of hiatus, and Microjet UAV Ltd are moving from strength to strength.

Microjet UAV Ltd have relocated to premises on the border of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, whilst retaining their test facilities at Duxford Airfield.

We have recently acquired a new email address at sales@microjet-uav.com

The website will shortly be updated to reflect the many exciting new developments, but not all of them, as we have to keep some of them secret for obvious reasons! Please bear with us for a little bit longer, it has been a busy, interesting and challenging year.

We hope this information is of assistance. Microjet UAV Ltd
February 2006

Every effort has been made to ensure that all descriptions are accurate. Errors & Omissions Excepted. Research and Design is an ongoing process and therefore Microjet reserve the right to modify/improve designs as necessary. All designs remain the property of Microjet.

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