Aeromechanical engineer · Professional pilot
Ben Myburgh
I have spent most of my life moving between airplanes, engineering projects and ideas worth pursuing—from flight schools and aircraft programs to simulators, HMARD and a motorcycle trip around the world.
A few chapters
Aircraft. Simulation. Flight test.
Turning engineering ideas into models, prototypes and flight-test results.
Mixed reality aviation
HMARD
My flight-tested helmet-mounted AR system for placing persistent virtual aircraft, targets and boundaries into the real outside world.
Aircraft development
Engineering + Flight Test
Aircraft programs where I have worked across mechanical design, simulation, prototypes, test planning and pilot evaluation.
Professional simulation
X-Plane Pro
I support professional X-Plane simulator teams working through aircraft-model, hardware and integration problems.
Product development
Pretoria Limited
Independent engineering work that has taken ideas through CAD, prototypes, manufacturing and testing.
A life beyond the résumé
25,000 miles changed the view.
After losing my father and selling the flight school I had built, I left Tennessee on a motorcycle and headed east. The road crossed oceans, borders, deserts, mountain passes and eventually brought me home with a very different idea of what matters.
That journey became The $500 Bet and How I Met My Father.
Discover the book
Now available
The $500 Bet and How I Met My Father
A motorcycle, a promise and one lap around the world. The book follows a 25,000-mile journey through grief, risk, mechanical failure and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
“I took the one less traveled by,
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
And that has made all the difference.”