AeroX experimental airframe in flight
R&D · EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT

The airframes you do not see.

Projects: the drone R&D programme behind the Aero Series, the heavy-lift aircraft we are developing for 2028, and the systems we have delivered to clients.

SHOWN · AeroX, experimental airframe, Scenic Rim test site
01 · THE R&D PROGRAMME

Every production aircraft started as an experiment.

AeroClip and AeroTank are the visible tip of a wider programme. Behind them sits a run of experimental airframes, each built to answer one question: a new arm geometry, a different payload deck, a control approach or a sensing stack that has to prove itself before it goes anywhere near a live conductor.

AeroX is the current test bed. It is purely experimental: a reconfigurable airframe for trying different rotor layouts and flight-control code, including fully actuated six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) multirotor configurations that hold attitude independently of position. Nothing on it is for sale. What it proves goes into the next revision of the aircraft we do sell.

AeroX experimental airframe in flight
AEROX · EXPERIMENTAL TEST BED

It is also why a one-off brief gets a serious answer. Most of what a client asks for, we have already tried some version of.

TEST SITE
Scenic Rim, QLD. Our own ground, our own RTK base.
TESTED ON AEROX
Rotor configurations, 6DOF flight control, autonomy code.
NOW IN PRODUCTION
RTA-11 payload deck and guarded-rotor geometry.
FABRICATION
CNC, printing, composites and wiring in house. Drawing to flying in days.
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Project Brolga heavy-lift aircraft, concept render
02 · DARPA LIFT CHALLENGE CONCEPT · 2028

Project Brolga

Named for one of Australia's tallest flying birds. Heavy, long-legged, and built to carry.

Our planned entry for the DARPA Lift Challenge, 2028. A heavy-lift unmanned aircraft designed and built in Australia, taking the sealed-body and open-architecture approach proven on RTA-15 AeroTank to a lift class no aircraft in our fleet has flown.

The programme is in concept design. Airframe layout, propulsion sizing and the structural approach are being settled now; a sub-scale demonstrator follows. We are looking for research and industry partners on propulsion, structures and autonomy.

STAGE
Concept design
TARGET
Challenge, 2028
BUILT ON
RTA-15 lineage
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03 · DELIVERED

Client project

Turnkey UAV with its custom sensing payload on the landing pad
RESEARCH CLIENT · UNNAMED DELIVERED

Turnkey UAV with a custom sensing payload

A research group needed a specific sensor in the air on a repeatable flight profile, with the data landing in a form their own pipeline could ingest. Nothing off the shelf carried the sensor, and adapting a stock airframe would have compromised the flight envelope they needed.

We delivered the aircraft, the payload and the ground software as one system — airframe designed around the sensor's mass and field of view, edge processing on board, and ground control set up so their operators could fly the profile without us present.