
Mr. Molent is an acknowledged authority in the fields of aircraft structural integrity, structural mechanics, structural and fatigue testing, advanced composite bonded repair, aircraft vulnerability and aircraft accident investigation. He has over 250 publications in these technical areas and is a qualified aircraft accident investigator. He has been attached to both the then Civil Aviation Department (1985) and the US Navy (NAVAIR, 1990-1991) in Washington D.C. as an airworthiness engineer, and has a board network of collaborators both nationally and internationally. Until October 2020 Mr Molent was the Defence Science and Technology Group’s Head of Emerging Aircraft Structural Integrity.