RotorLabMost pages like this are a wall of marks that invite you to assume the best. Every organization below carries a label saying exactly what we are to them — because being a member, a supplier, or the team that built the platform are not the same thing, and the difference is usually the part you actually wanted to know.
The largest drone racing league in the world, and the published rulebook the whole sport flies to. RotorLab Racing is a chartered MultiGP chapter in Dubuque — the only one in Iowa — which makes us a member of the league, not a partner of it.
It is also where the software gets its hardest use. Every tool here started as a question somebody asked at a track, and the answers get checked at one most weekends.
The drone engineering program at Loras uses the RotorLab Builder and testing suite. Students size an aircraft against real propeller and motor physics before a single part is ordered, then check those predictions against what the airframe actually did once it has flown.
That loop is the reason the engine exists, and it is the one thing a spreadsheet cannot close. Every equation behind it is published and re-derived in the browser, so the program can check the tool rather than take its word for anything — which is the right way round for teaching.
On-demand 3D printing — FDM and resin — and laser cutting, quoted instantly from the geometry of the file you upload rather than from a lookup table. Send a model and the price comes back from a real slice of it.
We partnered with Snap to help bring that quoting to their customers. Which means a mount you size against the numbers on this site can be quoted, made and in your hands without an engineering drawing in between.
We would rather do a few of these properly than collect names. Tell us what you are trying to run and we will say honestly whether we help.
Engineering and UAS programs that need students designing against real physics rather than a parts list, and checking their own predictions against real flights.
Operations that have to produce records on demand — hours, currency, maintenance, authorizations — and would rather they assembled themselves from the flying than be typed up afterwards.
People who make the parts and airframes, and want a customer arriving with numbers that already hold together instead of a sketch and a hope.
Organizations that fly together and keep track of it — racing chapters, clubs, training groups — where the flying is the point and the paperwork should not be.
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