He is the leading author of the report on the Project Daedalus interstellar, fusion powered starship concept, published by the British Interplanetary Society.
In the 1980s, he was one of the creators of the HOTOL space plane project, along with Dr. Bob Parkinson of British Aerospace.
REL is developing a single-stage orbital space plane Skylon, and other advanced vehicles including the Reaction Engines LAPCAT A2 hypersonic airliner concept as part of the European LAPCAT programme.
[2] In a self-published book[3] co-authored with Mark Hempsell, Bond claimed to have deciphered an Assyrian clay tablet dated to 700 BC that they argued might describe an asteroid strike causing a landslide at Köfels in Tyrol in 3123 BC.
[8] The work of Bond and his colleagues Richard Varvill and John Scott-Scott on the development of the HOTOL and SKYLON space planes was chronicled in a 50-minute TV documentary, The Three Rocketeers, first broadcast on BBC Four on 12 Sept 2012.