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Design

Design the aircraft on physics you can check.

Size a multirotor, VTOL or fixed wing on published physics, check its balance and radio range, then calibrate the model from the aircraft's own hover telemetry. The design becomes the first page of the aircraft's record.

Read the full guide in the docs →
The RotorLab Builder screen
What changes

Numbers you can defend before the first build.

Used by engineering and design teams, manufacturers, and programs that build their own aircraft.

Know the numbers before you cut carbon.

Endurance, hover throttle, thrust margin and motor-out behavior recompute as you change a part.

A model that matches the real aircraft.

Calibrate from a live hover, so the figures come from your airframe, not a datasheet.

Hand buyers a dossier, not a promise.

Freeze a type and issue a verifiable design dossier that every serial's record points back to.

In the product

Every number recomputes as you build.

  • Weight, thrust and endurance: at the top, as you change a part.
  • Power distribution: from each battery to every load.
  • The whole airframe: frame, motors, propellers and packs in one console.
The RotorLab Builder screen
In the product

Inside design

The RotorLab Balance and center of gravity screen
Balance and center of gravityEvery part placed, and where the aircraft balances from above and from the side.
The RotorLab radio link budget screen
Radio link budgetUsable range for control and video from your radios, antennas and the site.
How it works

From a parts list to a frozen type.

Each step reads from the one before it, so nothing is typed twice.

Build it

Pick the frame, motors, propellers, battery and payload, or start from the guided wizard.

Check it

Read endurance, thrust margin, balance, radio range and motor-out as you type.

Calibrate it

Fly a hover and let the aircraft's own telemetry tune the model.

Freeze it

Freeze the type baseline. Every serial built to it carries that record.

Capabilities

Everything the design bench needs.

The detail behind design, as it works today.

Builder

A live console.

Inputs on one side, a physics readout on the other, recomputed on every change.

Airframes

20 airframe types.

Quads to octos, coaxial layouts, fixed wing, quadplanes, tiltrotors and VTOL transition.

Trade studies

Sweep the options.

Compare batteries, propellers or payloads across a range and see where the margin goes.

Balance

Center of gravity.

Place every part and see where the aircraft balances, from the side and from above.

RF

Link budget.

Usable range for control and video from your radios, antennas and the site.

Types

Frozen baselines.

A type baseline, serialized aircraft and service bulletins issued per serial.

For your technical lead

The physics, stated plainly.

Stated plainly, so it can be checked.

The physicsHover from momentum theory, with motor, propeller and battery models from published data.
ProofEvery equation is re-derived in the visitor's browser and checked against the engine's own answers on the public math page.
CalibrationFigure of merit and maximum thrust measured from a live hover of the real aircraft, with the Live Telemetry add-on.
ScaleFrom small multirotors to large aircraft carrying people, with scale inferred from mass.
OutputDesign dossier and performance report as PDFs with verification codes.

Put your program on the record.

Talk to us about your fleet, or start a trial and file your first flight today.