Rapid and Versatile UAS Development
Our Goal: From concept to flight test in 30 days
Our design process includes custom tools that take you from vehicle layout, through realistic vehicle simulation, to control-law development, and finally to HITL and vehicle flight testing
Our tools support a wide range of flight vehicles and aerial systems, including:
Fixed-wing aircraft
Multirotor platforms
VTOL aircraft
Transitioning flight vehicles
Non-traditional configurations
Counter-UAS systems
Multi-vehicle and swarm simulations
Rocket-powered vehicles
Guided armament
Vehicle Modeling
No existing model? No problem. Falcon Aerospace can rapidly generate practical aerodynamic, mass, and propulsion models for simulation, control development, and design evaluation.
Capabilities include:
Low- to mid-fidelity vehicle modeling from early geometry
Aerodynamic model generation using MAVRIK, NAELL, and in-house tools
Integration of CFD, wind tunnel, or external aerodynamic data
Support for fixed-wing, multi-surface, and custom UAS configurations
Direct integration into simulation and control workflows
Learn more about our aerodynamic generation capabilities here.
Flight Simulation
MAVRIK is a real-time flight simulator built for complex and nontraditional vehicles, including fixed-wing aircraft, multirotors, VTOL platforms, rockets, and vehicles with moving or morphing components.
Capabilities include:
Real-time simulation of fixed-wing, multirotor, VTOL, rocket, and custom vehicle configurations
Support for dynamic components such as folding wings, rotating surfaces, and transitioning designs
Rapid first-cut aerodynamic, mass, and inertia estimates from basic vehicle geometry
Multi-order actuator dynamics, atmospheric turbulence, and emulated onboard sensors
Control development outputs, including A/B state-space matrices
Learn more about our MAVRIK flight simulator here, and our Unreal Engine graphics here.
Flight Control
Falcon Aerospace supports integration with popular autopilot platforms including PX4 and Ardupilot and is currently developing a flight control board to allow easier integration for custom vehicles with nontraditional layouts. This flight controller will be setup to integrate with MAVRIK for SITL and HITL testing before flight as well as MAVLink compatible ground stations.
The FA flight controller board will allow integration of custom:
Control laws
Sensors/sensor fusion algorithms
Data logging
Telemetry
Vehicle specific configuration
Custom Ground Stations
Falcon Aerospace can create mission-focused interfaces for live flight operations, telemetry monitoring, command and control, and post-flight review.
Capabilities include:
Adaptive layouts tailored to mission profile, vehicle type, and flight needs
Real-time telemetry visualization and system status monitoring
Redundant data logging and flight log replay
Post-flight analysis with synchronized video review
Flight Testing Support
Our development tools help reduce flight-test risk before the vehicle ever leaves the ground, but experimental flight testing still requires careful planning, execution, and review. Falcon Aerospace supports customers with experienced UAS pilots and flight-test procedures tailored to experimental vehicles.
Support includes:
Simulation-to-flight validation
Ground and flight checklists for system testing
Tailored pre-flight and post-flight procedures
Flight-test planning and risk reduction
Experimental UAS piloting support
Customer vehicle flight testing or subsystem flight demonstrations
When needed, our team can perform flight tests on your behalf, whether testing the full vehicle platform or validating a specific part of the system.
What we do
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Our system is designed for rapid UAV development from concept to flight including:
Aerodynamic model generation
Flight simulation
Control algorithm testing
Flight testing
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Our system is built to support advanced, custom vehicle development from initial aerodynamic modeling through to flight testing. Enabling seamless integration of:
Dynamic components such as folding-wing VTOL mechanisms
Sophisticated control laws
Advanced sensor fusion algorithms
Custom data logging and telemetry solutions
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Our system is designed to simplify the transition between development phases. We help you avoid the hassle of integrating software and hardware that weren’t built to work together, so you can focus your valuable time on innovation instead of troubleshooting.
Flight-Test-Ready Guarantee
For projects that pass our initial feasibility review, if by the end of your Sprint you don’t have a validated aero model, working custom simulator, and a test / training plan your team is actually using, we’ll keep working with you at no extra cost until you do.
Why Falcon Aerospace?
Speed – We turn ideas into flight-ready systems in a matter of weeks, dramatically shortening development cycles.
Expertise – Our team brings together deep aerospace engineering experience with advanced software, hardware, and control system design.
Integration – Our platform streamlines development by removing the friction caused by incompatible software and hardware components.
Flexibility – From UAVs to experimental aircraft, we create customized solutions that meet the unique demands of each project.
Our Why
The traditional aerospace development cycle is slow, expensive, and often disconnected from real-world flight testing until late in the process. We saw a critical need in the research and development sector: moving flight testing earlier and making it a streamlined, iterative part of design.
Too often, promising concepts stall in endless simulations or get bogged down by rigid processes. By integrating rapid prototyping, simulation, and control development into a seamless pipeline, we enable engineers and researchers to test, refine, and fly faster than ever before.
Our approach bridges the gap between theory and real-world performance, allowing teams to gather flight data earlier, make informed design decisions, and accelerate innovation. Because the sooner you fly, the sooner you learn.