Design,
Build &
Compete

Focus on engineering excellence without building an aircraft. Teams demonstrate mastery through design analysis, documentation, and manufacturing strategy.

• Submit engineering design report
• Engineering design event
• Cost and manufacturing event
• No aircraft build required

Design, build, and manually pilot your aircraft through a full programme of static evaluations and flight performance events.

• Same evaluation events as Design Class
• Manual takeoff performance event
• Manual flight performance event
• Manual air drop event

The most demanding class — your aircraft must complete autonomous missions including waypoint navigation, automatic landing, and air drops.

• Same evaluation events as Design Class
• Automatic takeoff performance event
• Automatic flight performance event
• Automatic air drop event