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

Projects

Things that run.

Interactive models, engineering tools, and a few archived systems. The live ones open directly; the private ones are kept back until they are useful enough to survive a stranger clicking around.

Live

Polynomial vs Power Fit Explorer

Compare polynomial, spline, and power-law fits for aircraft fuel-efficiency data, including extrapolation behaviour.

PlotlyLeast squaresFlight mechanicsData viz
Live

Specific Range Explorer

An interactive analysis of why SR curves bend above the optimum altitude, fitted to published airline data.

ReactOptimizationPerformanceKaTeX
Live

Panel Code / Kutta Demo

A browser-based panel-method demonstration for explaining circulation, pressure, and the equal-transit-time myth.

TypeScriptPanel methodsAerodynamics
Live

Wind Turbine Explainer

A 3D turbine and accompanying physics model for blade loading, wake behaviour, and design intuition.

Three.jsWebGLEducation
Live

Blade Harmonics

A compact mathematical visualisation of harmonic cancellation in equally spaced rotating blades.

ReactRechartsMaths
Write-up

FlexCompute Foil

Rust and WebAssembly airfoil tooling, with validation notes and the geometry problems that make solver work interesting.

RustWASMXFOILValidation
Archive

PARADIGM

A systems-of-systems optimisation platform for aircraft, energy, logistics, and infrastructure trade studies.

PythonOptimizationGeospatialROMs
Not public
Private

Deckide

Decision intelligence experiments for exploring multi-dimensional trade spaces without reducing them to one bad chart.

TypeScriptReactData viz
Not public