GTL
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories
The team
behind GTL
Two decades of working the hardest aerospace problems — cryogenic composite structures, combustion instability, and rocket engine development — under a leadership team that has delivered it firsthand.
Paul Gloyer
An experienced executive and accomplished program manager with 25 years delivering technical solutions to the aerospace industry's hardest problems. He has led development of a wide range of aerospace systems — the PA-X suborbital rocket, the PA-E15k rocket engine, the SPORT orbit-transfer vehicle, and the Encounter solar-sail craft — spanning small integrated systems to large, complex space-mission architectures.
M.S. Aerospace Engineering — University of Tennessee Space Institute
Tim Lewis
More than 25 years across communications, aerospace, electronic products, and advanced materials, with a track record of building profitable high-technology businesses. Previously Sr. Director and General Manager on QUALCOMM's Executive Staff, with senior roles at ORBCOMM, Orbital Sciences, and Hercules Chemical. He holds U.S. Army and NASA commendations and has authored more than 18 award-winning AIAA papers.
M.B.A. — University of Southern California
Zachary Taylor
Extensive experience designing, fabricating, and testing a broad range of composite structures — pressure vessels for rockets, satellites, and commercial use, plus rocket structures, wings, and fins. His design skills are backed by years of practical shop experience across composites, metals, polymers, and ceramics, and he has directed teams through every stage from design and analysis to fabrication and commercial production.
Dr. Gary Flandro
One of the world's leading experts in combustion instability, fluid dynamics, and aerospace systems. Early in his career he discovered the Grand Tour opportunity that enabled the first and second Voyager explorations. Over 40 years he has focused on combustion instability, and his breakthroughs form the basis of the UCDS Model — an unprecedented capability to accurately predict the stability of steady-flow combustion devices.
M.S. Aeronautics — California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. — California Institute of Technology
Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dr. Eric Jacob
An aerospace-systems design and development expert with 20 years of experience and a seasoned principal investigator. His work spans cryogenic systems, aircraft and space-vehicle design, rocket-engine design and testing, and UAS development and flight. Dr. Jacob has invented novel methods for optimizing rocket launch vehicles and trajectories, as well as innovative liquid rocket engines and rotating detonation engines.
M.S. Aerospace Engineering — University of Tennessee Space Institute
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering — University of Tennessee Space Institute
M.S. Mathematics — University of Tennessee Space Institute
Dr. Joshua Batterson
DIRECTOR of Modeling and Simulation
Leads GTL's Modeling & Simulation department, developing numerical algorithms spanning acoustic, vorticity, thermal, and hydrodynamic wave solvers, genetic algorithms, smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, and structural mechanics. His work established GTL's custom multi-physics framework — a compressible reacting-flow CFD algorithm, conjugate heat transfer, acoustics, and structural mechanics. He also operates GTL's in-house hydrogen liquefaction system, producing up to 149 L of liquid hydrogen for cryogenic tests, and led the effort to test GTL's composite tanks with liquid helium — repeatedly achieving a super-fluid state.
M.S. Aerospace Engineering — University of Tennessee Space Institute
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering — University of Tennessee Space Institute
GTL
112 Mitchell Blvd, Tullahoma, TN 37388 · 931-455-7330