Built for people who build flying hardware.
An independent aerospace engineering studio. Runs locally — your geometry stays on your machine.
Nicholas Liautaud
I started AeroForge because the tools I needed didn’t exist in one place. I’d be modeling an airfoil in XFOIL, then a sectional in AVL, then doing weight & balance in a spreadsheet, then opening OpenFOAM for a sanity CFD pass — and every transition lost information. AeroForge is the workspace I wanted: every analysis on the same geometry, the same units, and the same source of truth.
I build things end-to-end — airframes, solvers, software, and the UI on top of them. I care about results that hold up to a wind tunnel, not screenshots that look good on a slide.
Background
A decade building airframes and wiring solvers by hand. Too much engineering time burned at the boundary between tools instead of inside them. AeroForge is the workspace I wish I'd had on day one.
What I've built
Not a slide deck — the fourth attempt at this problem, first one that works.
AeroForge
Five surfaces, end-to-end, one engineer.
XFOIL + OpenFOAM
One geometry from 2D polar to 3D RANS.
Offline app
Runs in a hangar without wifi.
Real airframes
Used on actual airframes. Not academic.
What we believe
Owned, not rented.
Runs locally. No subscription. No cloud lock-in.
Integrated beats best-in-class.
Five surfaces, one workspace, one geometry.
Industry solvers, not toys.
XFOIL and OpenFOAM when available. Analytical fallback otherwise.
Speed is a feature.
Polars in seconds. Trim instantly. CFD as fast as your mesh.
Under the hood
A real engineering stack. Not a chatbot wrapper.
- XFOIL viscous polar (Drela, MIT)
- Analytical thin-airfoil fallback
- Reynolds & Mach sweeps
- Composite CG & %MAC
- Neutral-point & static-margin solve
- Envelope & loading-case checks
- AVL-equivalent derivatives
- Cm-α, Cn-β, dihedral effect
- Lift-curve slope, control authority
- Steady level trim (L = W)
- α, CL, L/D at operating point
- Weight / altitude / airspeed walkers
- OpenFOAM steady RANS
- STL geometry intake
- Analytical preview when offline
- Next.js web workspace
- pywebview offline desktop build
- FastAPI Python backend
Open the workspace.
Five surfaces. One geometry. No subscription.