- 2010age 7First flightA high-altitude radio-controlled glider — on the sticks from the first flight, nothing free-flight about it.
- 2012age 9Trainer, IC engineFirst powered aircraft, built rather than bought. A nitro engine, and the first real lesson in what a bad landing costs.
- 2014age 11Balsa scratch-buildsRibs, spars and formers cut from raw balsa by hand — no kits, ever. The airframes on sheets 06 and 07 started as sheet stock.
- 2016age 13Started 3D aerobaticsHovering, harriers, torque rolls. Flying the airframe well past the point where it stops behaving like a plane.
- 2017age 14FPV dronesCustom quads built from the frame up — electronics, Betaflight and INAV setup, PID tuning, and hardware debugging.
- 2018age 15Boeing IIT AeromodellingRunner-Up at the Zonals (IIT Bombay), then Runner-Up again at the Finals (IIT Delhi, 2019). High-lift dual payload aircraft — pilot.
- 2,000+ flight hrs2024age 21Swarm Robotics — UAV Testing LeadLed flight test on fixed-wing and multirotor platforms, with well over 2,000 hours of stick time behind it by this point. Best Design at Regatta 2.0, Runner-Up at Technoxian drone soccer, and won the Search & Rescue UAV as FPV pilot.
- 2025age 22Grant, and a podium at BITS GoaA ₹12 lakh college-funded grant for swarm research, 1st Runner-Up at the International Space Drone Challenge, and DGCA remote pilot certification.
- 2026age 23Building in stealthWorking on something new with a small team. It isn't public yet, so there isn't much to say here. More once it is.
Featured sheets.
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Supervised Autonomous Decision Architecture for Fixed-Wing UAV
A first-principles safety-critical architecture separating mission reasoning from real-time flight control.
Long-Range Cinematic FPV
High-endurance quadcopter for long-range cinematic capture.
Hand-Built Fixed-Wing Aircraft (IC Engine)
Wingspan: 2.5 m Structure: Fully hand-built balsa wood airframe Construction: Rib-and-spar, scratch-built from raw materials Propulsion: Internal combustion engine (Methanol) Build scope: Structural construction, assembly, integration, and flight testing
Fixed-Wing Dual Payload Delivery Aircraft
Autonomous fixed-wing aircraft designed for precision payload delivery.
Mars Simulation Recon Drone
FPV reconnaissance drone built for simulated extraterrestrial environments.
Drone Soccer System
Competitive drone soccer ball design.
Thrust Vectoring Airship
Conceptual LTA (Lighter Than Air) vehicle with 3-axis thrust vectoring for precise indoor maneuverability.
ERPoscontract
A full-stack inventory and operations ERP for a multi-front food business — tracking every gram from vendor delivery to the plate, with AI-assisted analysis, OCR bill processing, WhatsApp order ingestion, a six-state verified intake workflow, and per-outlet financial records that can reconstruct the truth at any point in time.
Line-Synced Audio Streaming App for a Community Trustcontract
A cross-platform audio app built for a community trust's ~2,000-member audience — a player that highlights Devanagari verse line by line as it plays, offline downloads encrypted at rest, and a content pipeline that publishes new recordings with no app-store release.
Helm: Mobile Mission Control for Agentic Sessions
A mission-control system that turns a spare Android phone into a live dashboard for every Claude Code session running on a laptop — session cards, live transcripts with red/green diffs, an ambient "Standby Mode" board, and a Tailscale SSH terminal.
Aircraft, autonomy, and the software around them — built from first principles and proven where it counts.
Design the system, make the part, run the test, record what happened, and revise the drawing.
Long-range, cinematic, and proximity flying on hand-tuned airframes. See sheet F →