Technology
The technology behind Starwingi.
Starwingi R1 is our first aircraft platform. Here's what it is, and what's still TBD.
Technology
Built around the aircraft and the intelligence behind it.
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Efficient Flight
An aircraft designed around lightweight delivery rather than carrying unnecessary mass.
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Autonomous Navigation
Flight software designed to manage missions, navigation and delivery operations.
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Fleet Intelligence
Starwingi's software layer connects aircraft, missions, businesses and delivery status.
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Designed for Kigali
Our first systems are being designed around the realities of Rwanda's terrain, weather, infrastructure and urban logistics.
The Starwingi aircraft
Meet Starwingi R1.
Our first aerial delivery platform.
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Specifications
Not yet verified
- Payload
- TBD
- Range
- TBD
- Flight system
- Under development
- Delivery mechanism
- Tether / winch concept
- Launch
- VTOL
- Autonomy
- Development roadmap
These are target architecture choices, published as we commit to them — not final specifications.
Engineering model
Inside Starwingi R1.
Our parametric CAD model of the R1 prototype: every board, cable and mechanism placed at its real size and fit-checked. Tilt the pods, move the elevons, play a tether delivery, and tap any part for its full spec sheet.
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Point at or tap any part to see its size, position, mass and what it connects to. Positions are measured back from the nose (x), out from the centreline (y) and up from the wing's centre plane (z), in millimetres. Try Electronics to see every board and cable, or Play delivery.
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Design targets
Concept model v0.4 · 25 fit checks pass · not flight-tested
- Wingspan
- 1.80 m
- Length
- 0.75 m
- Take-off weight
- 6.8 kg
- Payload
- 2 kg
- Propulsion
- 2 tilting contra-rotating pods, 4 × 18" props
- Delivery
- Tether from 25 m, bomb-bay doors
- Delivery radius
- 10 km planned (11.4 km calculated)
- Motor-out margin
- 27% spare thrust in hover
- Parts modelled
- 100+, with wiring
Software platform
The aircraft is only half the system.
Starwingi combines aircraft, flight operations and logistics software into one delivery network.
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