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You learn aircraft design by building one.
The theory is in the books. What is missing is somewhere to take that theory and design a real aircraft with it, and a tool you can actually reach when you try. Wingarddy is building both.
Alpha · wings only · powered by Jace Kim
There is nowhere to actually try it.
There are plenty of ways to learn the theory. There is no obvious way to take that theory, design an aircraft with it, check the numbers, and find out what you got wrong. Most people who set out to learn this stop right there, holding a textbook and no aircraft.
Then the tool stops you again.
To try any of it you need a design tool. The capable ones cost money, and the free ones were not built with someone learning in mind. So the first screen you meet, having come to learn, is a payment page or an interface that assumes you already know which button you wanted. That is a threshold problem, and thresholds are fixable.
What we do about it
We work on those two thresholds.
What exists today, and where it is going.
- The material stays free
- The posts and the curriculum carry no price. Reading them costs us nothing to serve, so more readers never turns into a reason to start charging.
- The working gets published
- Every aerodynamics post carries the solver inside it, so you can move a slider and check the claim instead of taking it on trust.
- Designing an RC aircraft
- Coming soon, as the curriculum.
Start here
Three doors. Any of them.
Wing Builder
Design whatever you like, in whatever order you like. Draw a planform and you get the lift distribution, the induced drag and the neutral point back. Nothing to install, no account.
02Blog
If you would rather understand the plots first, start here. One idea per piece, and the same solver runs inside the posts, so you can test each claim while you read it.
03Curriculum
A course that takes one RC aircraft from the brief to the first flight, in the order you would really decide it. Coming soon — the syllabus is up.
Get in early
The alpha opens soon.
Wing Builder is being built right now. Leave an address and you get it the day it opens. Tell us what you are trying to learn while you are there, since that is what we use to decide what comes next.
One-click signup is coming. For now a mail is the fastest way in: tell us what you are trying to learn and you get the alpha when it opens.