Aeronauty — field notes on bad physics & AI slop — est. 2026

Aeronauty

Useful tools for awkward engineering questions.

A working notebook of aerospace demos, curve-fitting arguments, solver experiments, and the occasional story about choosing the right abstraction before the wrong one costs everyone a week.

Browse projectsRead writing

Current bias

Make the model visible, then argue with it honestly.

Flight physics

Stability, performance, aero data

Interfaces

Interactive tools over static slides

Optimization

Trade spaces, routing, decisions

Writing

Technical judgment in public

Start here

Projects are the point. Writing is the record of the argument.

The site is split deliberately: working tools and demos live under projects; essays and technical stories live under writing. Some things are public, some are in the lab while they are still half-built.

Projects

Runnable tools, demos, and engineering interfaces.

Writing

Technical notes, postmortems, and longer explanations.

Lab

Private drafts and behind-the-scenes prototypes.

Selected work

Things worth opening first.

All projects

Tool + essay

Polynomial vs power-law fitting

A small interactive argument about why the function you choose can matter more than the R-squared you report.

Curve fittingDfTFlight mechanics
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Interactive model

Specific range explorer

A fitted performance model showing why specific-range curves bend above the optimum altitude.

PerformanceOptimizationLufthansa data
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Project write-up

FlexCompute Foil

A long-form look at porting XFOIL ideas into Rust and WebAssembly without losing the aerodynamic bits that matter.

RustWASMAirfoils
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A small site, but not a neutral one.

I like engineering tools that reveal their assumptions. I dislike plots that hide bad fits behind smooth lines. Most of the work here follows from those two preferences.

If something looks unfinished, it probably is. That is better than pretending every useful thought arrives fully polished.