He decided to design his own autogyro and on 4 November 1991 the CAA issued the Wombat a restricted Permit to Test.

In May 1997, when Julian was 60 years old, he was killed in the crash of a different model gyroglider at the Kemble airfield.

[2] After Julian's death the Wombat design rights passed to former helicopter pilot Mark Harrisson in July 2000.

Harrisson had intended to put the aircraft back into production, but in 2013 instead donated the prototype to The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, where it arrived on 9 July 2013.

It features a single main rotor, a single-seat semi-enclosed cockpit with a cockpit fairing and windshield, tricycle landing gear, plus a tail caster and a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, single-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 532 engine in pusher configuration.