The name is a promise about wings.
Wing and guard. The one who looks after the wing. It reads as a made-up word because it is one, and we like that it sounds like something you’d name a workshop rather than a product.
The guarding part is the actual job. A wing is where a model aircraft is won or lost, and it’s also the part hobby builders have the least help with. Motors have specs. Batteries have specs. Your planform has whatever you can work out with a tool from 2003, or a rule of thumb from a forum post, or a maiden flight and a long walk to the trees.
What we’re doing about it
Two things, and they hold each other up.
The first is Wing Builder— a free design environment with a real vortex-lattice solver behind it. It runs in your browser, which is not a gimmick: it’s the reason we can hand it out for nothing and keep handing it out. There are no servers to pay for and no per-user cost to recover, so there’s never a moment where the maths of running it forces us to put a price on it.
The second is Aircraft One— a new aircraft designed in that tool, built, and flown, with the whole thing written up as it happens. Drawings, spec, and BOM get published. If the tool is any good, an aircraft coming out the other end is the only argument that matters. If it isn’t, you’ll be able to read exactly where it fell over.
Who’s behind it
Wingarddy comes from the people at onmoru, where the day job is designing mission-built aircraft with AI engineering agents on our own physics engine. The name has some history with us — it was a UAV development team before it was this — but this is a fresh start rather than a continuation, and nothing from back then is being dusted off and reposted.
The split between the two is simple. onmoru is the commercial side: real programmes, real airframes, paid work. Wingarddy is the free side, for people building at their own bench. The engine underneath is the same one either way, which is why a hobby tool gets to punch above its price.
If you can describe an aircraft, you should be able to analyse it. That shouldn’t cost anything, and it shouldn’t require a degree.
Where it’s going
The alpha does wings. After that: sections computed on demand instead of looked up, control surfaces, and eventually the rest of the aircraft. The order will depend on what people ask for, which is a real statement — the waitlist mail asks what you build for exactly this reason.