A local firm and a Chinese company have reached a deal to open a Lawrence manufacturing plant to build propellers that will power everything from drones to airboats to experimental aircraft. Lawrence-based DARcorporation and China-based Sterna Composite Aircraft Inc. have agreed [...]
More than eight years after it was introduced, the four-seat Stratos 714 single-engine very light jet completed its first flight on November 21 from its base in Redmond, Oregon, Stratos Aircraft announced today. During the 10-minute flight, the all-composite airplane reached a [...]
Congratulations to our friends at The University of Kansas and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology who won first prize in the AIAA Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition! Special shout out to Michael Gritsch, a member of the team from RMIT who is [...]
Established in 1991, DARcorporation has been providing world-class aircraft design services and software for two and a half decades! Pictured on the right are the original 1991 employees from left to right and top to bottom: Dr. Jan Roskam, President (now Project [...]
Congratulations to the Assailing Falcons team from VIT University in India on their top 10 finish at the SAE AeroDesign competition! The team used DARcorporation's Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA) software to aid in the design of their competition aircraft. The SAE pilot [...]
Legendary faculty honored with KU Engineering's highest award. Jan Roskam's contribution to aeronautical engineering and aircraft design are legendary and his reputation is worldwide. He is an icon of scientific, technical, and professional leadership who continues to motivate and inspire. KU Aerospace [...]
Glasair Aviation's Merlin LSA received FAA light-sport certification in March. Glasiar plans to deliver the first of its completed aircraft to its customers, personal owners and flight schools, by the end of 2016. DARcorporation engineers assisted on the stability and control analysis [...]
Congratulations to the KU Aerospace Engineering team who won the 6th annual Power Electronics Systems and Applications Conference competition for their amphibious aircraft design called the BATWinG! The goal of the BATWinG is to improve bay area transportation by decreasing travel times [...]
The Results Are In for the 2014-2015 AIAA Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design Competition! Congratulations to our friends at Delft University of Technology for taking home the 2nd Prize with their design, "The WHALE"! Read the full story about the competition and the winning [...]
In 1995 Design, Analysis and Research Corporation received its first SBIR Phase I contract from NASA. It led to a Phase II project and was featured as a success story by NASA. On January 27, 2015, the DoD SBIR/STTR Program identified [...]
