Our Services
Summary
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We provide the tools and expertise to support your vehicle throughout the development cycle. We meet you where you are, helping move your vehicle from conceptual design, through simulation validation, and into flight testing.
Our support includes:
Vehicle design evaluation
Aerodynamic model generation
Flight simulation
Control algorithm testing
Pilot training
Hardware integration
Flight testing
Design optimization and modification
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We provide a powerful free UE5 visualizer with standard vehicle models for visualizing flight simulation results.
We can also build a custom visualizer tailored to your project, including:
Your custom vehicle with animations.
Heads-up-display
Camera views
Custom environment
and more
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In addition to our services, we provide free to use tools including:
Basic UE5 visualizer
Wire-frame visualizer for less powerful computers
Aerodynamic tools
Checklists (coming soon)
Check back for more tools to be added
UAS Development
Falcon Aerospace’s UAS Development Service is designed for rapid development of both traditional and highly customized, non-traditional Unmanned Aerial Systems. Our process accelerates your path from concept to flight while maintaining flexibility for unique vehicle designs and mission requirements. Our tools get you started as early in the development cycle as possible, getting a head start on control law development, vehicle design, and pilot training.
Aerodynamics and Flight Simulation:
Based on your vehicle specifications and available data, Falcon Aerospace can generate an initial low-fidelity aerodynamic model using our internal modeling tools and configure a custom flight simulator within MAVRIK. This simulator is tailored to your platform, mission profile, and testing objectives, enabling early evaluation of control laws, sensor fusion algorithms, configuration changes, and flight behavior under realistic simulation conditions.
As higher-fidelity information becomes available, such as CFD results, wind-tunnel data, flight-test data, or refined mass properties, these models can be incorporated into the simulation environment. This allows the simulator to evolve with the vehicle, serving as both a rapid development tool during early design and a high-fidelity testing and training environment as the design matures.
In addition to supporting the initial design sprint, MAVRIK enables fast evaluation of design modifications and operational changes. This can include new payload configurations, system failures, altered vehicle geometry, updated control effectors, or different mission scenarios. By testing these changes in simulation first, uncertainty can be reduced before committing to hardware changes or flight testing.
Vehicle Design Consultation:
Falcon Aerospace can also provide technical review and consultation for your vehicle design. Our team can evaluate the aircraft from multiple perspectives, including aerodynamics, simulation readiness, flight-control integration, hardware implementation, and pilot operability.
This review can help identify potential design risks early, such as stability concerns, control authority limitations, sensor placement issues, actuator constraints, packaging challenges, launch and recovery considerations, or operational issues that may affect flight testing. By combining aerodynamic, simulation, hardware, and flight-test experience, Falcon Aerospace can provide practical recommendations to improve vehicle performance, reliability, and test readiness.
Whether you are developing a new concept, modifying an existing platform, or preparing for flight testing, this design consultation helps reduce uncertainty and improve the likelihood of a successful simulation-to-flight transition.
Flight Controller and Hardware Integration:
Falcon Aerospace provides integration and testing support for flight hardware, including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop workflows. These tools help bridge the gap between simulation and real-world flight by allowing flight controllers, onboard systems, and control algorithms to be evaluated in a realistic closed-loop environment before flight testing.
Our team can assist with the integration of Falcon Aerospace flight-control solutions as well as established autopilot platforms such as PX4 and ArduPilot. Through supported communication interfaces, including MAVLink, MAVRIK can connect with flight controllers, ground stations, onboard hardware, and external systems to support simulation, validation, and test preparation.
Custom Ground Control Station
Falcon Aerospace can develop custom ground control station interfaces tailored to your vehicle, mission profile, and flight-test objectives. These interfaces can provide real-time telemetry visualization, system status monitoring, command and control, redundant data logging, and post-flight review tools in a layout designed around your specific operation.
Custom ground control tools can support live flight operations, simulation testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight log replay. Depending on the application, the system can be configured to communicate through UDP, Serial, MAVLink, or custom message protocols. Falcon Ground Control can also be integrated with Unreal Engine 5 visualization to provide synchronized video, custom camera views, heads-up displays, and immersive mission visualization.
Flight Testing Support
Falcon Aerospace helps reduce flight-test risk by validating vehicle behavior, control laws, hardware interfaces, and operational procedures before the vehicle leaves the ground. However, experimental flight testing still requires careful planning, disciplined execution, and experienced operators.
Our team includes experienced UAS pilots with flight-test experience on experimental vehicles. We can support customers with simulation-to-flight validation, tailored pre-flight and post-flight procedures, controller testing checklists, ground operation checklists, flight-test planning, and post-flight analysis.
When appropriate, Falcon Aerospace can also perform flight tests on behalf of the customer. This may include testing the full vehicle platform, evaluating a subsystem, validating a control approach, or supporting incremental flight-test campaigns.
Development Support:
Throughout the development process, Falcon Aerospace provides direct one-on-one support from our aerospace, simulation, and flight-testing team. Our goal is to help customers move efficiently from conceptual design to simulation, hardware integration, and successful flight testing.
This hands-on support allows teams to address technical challenges quickly, refine vehicle models as new data becomes available, and make informed design decisions throughout the development process.
Ready to Discuss Your Vehicle?
Falcon Aerospace meets clients wherever they are in the development process, whether that is early conceptual design, vehicle optimization, simulation refinement, hardware integration, or design modification. Our team can help evaluate your current progress, identify technical challenges, and determine whether a tailored solution is the right fit for your program.
Schedule an initial meeting with our team to discuss where your vehicle development stands and how Falcon Aerospace can support your next step.
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Custom Unreal Engine Graphics
For clients seeking a truly immersive simulation experience, Falcon Aerospace offers custom Unreal Engine 5 visualization development. Our team creates tailored simulation environments that accurately represent your vehicle, mission profile, and operational conditions—complete with open-world, high-fidelity terrains that can replicate locations from anywhere on the globe. This includes the integration of your custom vehicle. Advanced features such as adjustable camera views, HUDs, and custom animations can be integrated to enhance both realism and functionality. Whether you need a precise test environment for control law validation, pilot training, or a visually compelling presentation tool for stakeholders, our UE5 customization services deliver a seamless blend of engineering precision and cinematic quality.
Free Bonuses
In addition to our core service offerings, each client will receive the following complimentary tools to enhance their development experience. More information can be found in the Free Tools tab in the website menu.
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Each user will receive a basic, default Unreal Engine 5 graphics executable, delivering high-quality visuals for simulation environments. This visualizer is fully compatible with MAVRIK or any UDP enabled device. The base version includes various standard vehicle platforms for visualization, while advanced customization options—such as custom vehicle models, camera views, weather effects, HUDs, and more—are available as an additional service.
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While Unreal Engine offers high-fidelity visuals, it can be resource-intensive. For users running simulations on lower-spec machines, we provide a lightweight wireframe visualizer that delivers clear and efficient simulation visualization without the performance demands of UE5.
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(coming soon)
To ensure a smooth and reliable development process, we provide tailored, detailed checklists to guide and verify each phase of the project. These checklists help maintain consistency, reduce errors, and streamline validation from simulation to flight.
Included (but not limited to):
Aerodynamics model elements required for simulation
Integration tests within simulation to verify system implementation
Simulation-to-flight transition validation
Controller testing for both ground and flight operations
General flight checklist template for pre-flight and post-flight procedures
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Various aerodynamic tools are available for use. Most of which are research tools developed by our partnered research lab at USU (Aerolab). More information can be found here.