01 / FOCUS AREA
Mass & payload
How added weight changes endurance, response, and the energy required to stay airborne.
FLIGHT DYNAMICSFIG 01 / FLIGHT SYSTEMCONFIGURATION STUDY ↗SCHEMATIC / NOT FLIGHT DATA
INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING PROJECT / 001
Testing the
physics of flight.
Learning how things fly by changing one variable at a time, measuring what happens, and building on what the data says.
SCROLL TO EXPLORE OBSERVE / MEASURE / ITERATE
PROJECT STATUS / PHASE 01 · BASELINE PREPARATION
CURRENT PHASEProtocol development
TEST FLIGHTSNot yet recorded
VARIABLES PLANNEDUnder definition
LAST UPDATEFirst entry pending
Change one thing. Understand more.
PhysicsFlight investigates how measurable changes in a flight system affect the way it behaves.
THE QUESTION
How do mass, center of gravity, propeller configuration, drag, and battery state change a drone’s flight?
A working question, answered through controlled experiments—not assumptions.METHOD / 04 STAGES↘
01Test
Change a single variable.
02Measure
Capture conditions and response.
03Analyze
Look for patterns in the data.
04Iterate
Refine the next experiment.
Current experiment
A starting point for repeatable tests and useful comparisons.
EXPERIMENT 001 / PHASE 01 PROTOCOL IN DEVELOPMENT
Baseline Flight
Characterization.
Establishing a consistent reference flight before changing the configuration.
01 / QUESTION
What does a repeatable baseline flight look like?
02 / VARIABLES
Flight time, battery state, stability, and configuration.
03 / SETUP
Controlled route and conditions to be documented.
04 / STATUS
Developing the protocol. No results recorded yet.
What gets tested
Focused questions that can grow into individual experiments as the project develops.
02 / FOCUS AREA
Center of gravity
What happens to balance and control when the distribution of mass shifts.
STABILITY03 / FOCUS AREA
Propulsion & efficiency
Exploring the relationship between propeller configuration, battery state, and useful flight time.
POWER SYSTEMS04 / FOCUS AREA
Drag & aerodynamics
Testing how physical configuration influences resistance and flight behavior.
AIRFLOWFlight log
Every test deserves a record. This is where conditions, configurations, observations, and findings will live.
ENTRYFLIGHT / CONFIGURATIONRECORDSTATUS
01 / PLANNED
Baseline test flight
Awaiting first test recordIN PREPARATIONConfiguration and conditions to be documented
02 / NEXT
Variable comparison
No test scheduled yetNOT STARTEDTo be defined after the baseline
↳ Planned work, not flight records. No test flights have been logged here yet.
Data, not guesses
A place for measured values and clear comparisons once flight testing begins.
FLIGHT RESPONSE OVER TIMENO RECORDED SERIES
HIGHMIDLOW
NO FLIGHT DATA YETPlots will appear after recorded tests
STARTTIME / ELAPSEDEND
METRICS TO CAPTURE
Flight timeTIME
—Battery voltageVOLTAGE
—Payload massMASS
—Max altitudeALTITUDE
—StabilityRESPONSE
—Values intentionally blank until measured.
Built to find out
what actually happens.
PhysicsFlight is an ongoing independent engineering investigation. It brings together applied physics, aerospace thinking, experimental design, coding, and data analysis to ask better questions about flight.
The work is simple in principle: build, test, document what happened, and use it to make the next test better.
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