With many years’ experience delivering First Class and Business Class interiors projects for clients such as Safran Seats and Thompson Seats, Lee has joined the team and stepped in as Design Lead for our interiors offload packages of work, including for our new client, Adient Aerospace. 

We caught up with Lead Design Engineer, Lee Neale, to find out more.

Hi Lee, welcome to the team! Tell us a bit about your career history so far?

My career journey began with an engineering apprenticeship designing ticket issuing machines for British Rail – after some time working on special purpose machines and then DERA (Defence Evaluation & Research Agency), I later joined Airbus on their Concorde crash investigation team.

As a Mechanical Design Engineer by trade my career has primarily focused on the design of aerospace structures using metallic (ferrous and non-ferrous) and composite materials.

Over the years I have developed my structures design experience working on projects such as the A380, A400M, A350 and BLADE. During this time, I was also fortunate enough to work with Safran Seats, Thompson Seats, Renault F1 team and Leonardo Helicopters – as well as 2 years in Australia on the F35 JSF program and 3 months in South Korea with KAI.

Some other key projects for me have been Airbus Breakthrough Laminar Airflow, Singapore Airways Skyroom, Air New Zealand Fantail and most recently Vertical Aerospace VX4.

Morson Projects are currently delivering an interiors project for Adient Aerospace, what does this involve?

Morson Projects are currently working with Adient Aerospace to deliver a range of aircraft interior solutions. Our team can offer a wide range of design and analysis activities focusing on passenger comfort, styling, quality, weight efficiency and safety.

To deliver the right solutions to our clients such as Adient, our teamwork with varied materials and manufacturing methods such as; vacuum and press formings, complex composite designs, sheet metal and machined structure to name a few. 

Examples of recent work for Adient can be seen below:

How can your team support other companies with their interior offload requirements?

Morson Projects have an experienced team of design and analysis engineers that can adapt and solve design challenges for many different types of interiors requirements.

Since working at Morson Projects I have been impressed with the team’s excellent CAD and stress package execution, as well as their project management skills in order to provide a complete engineering solution for our clients.

What have you found most enjoyable about working for Morson Projects so far?

The Bristol office has been totally refurbished, offering a superb working environment. The friendly team have been welcoming and quickly made to feel part of the Morson family.

The team are very capable and it’s been great to get stuck in and involved in delivering quality design solutions for a range of interesting and complex projects.

What’s next?

We’re looking forward to continuing to develop the excellent working relationship we have with Adient Aerospace, as well as our other aerospace clients, with a view to increasing the team supporting more of their up-and-coming projects.


Find out more about Morson Projects Aerospace & Defence capability here >