Roads are fragile
Weather, politics, and disrepair can make road transport unreliable exactly when communities need movement most.
Virtual aerospace challenges
Aerolympics gives innovators a virtual aerospace platform to design, test, and improve new ways to fly through mission-based challenges.
Mission
When roads fail because of weather, disrepair, conflict, or geography, people and goods stop moving. Aerolympics exists to help teams imagine and test mobility systems that go beyond road networks.
The platform is built around experiential, mission-based learning: define a problem, design an aircraft concept, simulate it, improve it, and compete with other teams to solve the mission better.
Aerolympics in 90 seconds
See how Aerolympics opens aerospace innovation to builders anywhere — from humanitarian aid and wildfire response to communities beyond the end of the road.
Why it matters
Transportation gaps create real consequences. Aerolympics turns those gaps into practical design missions.
Weather, politics, and disrepair can make road transport unreliable exactly when communities need movement most.
Virtual simulation lets teams crash, reboot, improve, and learn without destroying aircraft or waiting on physical parts.
From students to independent innovators, the platform opens aerospace design to people beyond traditional engineering pipelines.
Platform
Teams can design and test advanced aerospace systems in a virtual environment before anything physical is built.
Simulation becomes easier to understand, making aerospace design more accessible for different learning styles.
Optimized tools shorten the build-measure-learn cycle, helping teams compare multiple ideas faster.
How it works
Start with a real mobility problem: cargo, access, range, terrain, emergency response, or education.
Use guided tools to shape an aircraft or aerial system around the mission requirements.
Test performance virtually, learn from the results, and iterate without physical risk.
Join a challenge, organize a program, or sponsor a competition that pushes ideas forward.
Aerolympics can support schools, independent builders, program organizers, and sponsors looking for practical aerospace learning.
Team
Pioneer in virtual aerospace platforms with experience in physics-based simulation and aerospace engineering.
Technology venture builder and co-founder of Solar Ship, with deep experience in airship transport and startup financing.
Product leader with experience building technology ventures, startup teams, and web products.
Operations and program manager experienced in remote-area logistics, internships, sabbaticals, and team tracking.
FAQ
Please reach out to us, and we will help you kick-start the program at your school.
You are welcome to join Aerolympics as a team or individual without school affiliation. Feel free to reach out to us for more information.
If you can dream it, you can build it. The platform supports manned and unmanned vehicles generating lift from fixed-wing aerodynamic forces, propellers, and buoyant gases.
Please reach out to us so we can tailor the best experience for you.
Please reach out to us to sign up for a mission. You can join a tournament, join an internship, or create your own mission.
Please reach out to us regarding any active challenges. You can compete as a team, as an individual looking to join a team, or on your own.
We are looking for sponsors for our global challenges. Please reach out to us if you are interested in making the world a better place through aerospace innovation.
Contact
Start a school program, join as an independent innovator, organize a mission, or sponsor a competition.