Introducing Aurora

Every airplane you've ever seen shares one rule: keep moving or stop flying. Every multirotor drone shares the opposite burden: stopping is easy, but staying costs everything. For years we've flown advertising aircraft on both sides of that divide — and today we're introducing the aircraft we built to erase it.

Aurora is a tilt-wing aircraft with no minimum speed. Its wings rotate, motors and all: pointed forward, it cruises like an airplane; pointed up, it hovers like a helicopter; and — this is the part that matters — it flies every point in between as a normal, stable, continuous operating condition.

Why "in between" is the whole product

Conventional VTOL aircraft treat the range between hover and cruise as a transition: a brief, carefully managed maneuver between "copter mode" and "plane mode" that pilots are trained to complete quickly, because lingering there is dangerous. That design philosophy is fine when the mission is to travel from A to B.

But an advertising aircraft's mission lives almost entirely inside that forbidden zone. The speeds that match a strolling boardwalk crowd, a stadium exit, a slow lap of a festival ground — those are all too slow for a wing alone and too sustained for rotors alone. So we designed an aircraft where that zone isn't a transition at all. Aurora's flight control blends wing lift and motor lift as one continuous system. Slow down and the wings tilt up to compensate — automatically, proportionally, with no mode switch and no handoff. Speed becomes a creative decision.

The stage stays level

Aurora carries a full-color LED display built in-house — 2,560 pixels of programmable light, engineered for dusk and darkness. Because the wings rotate instead of the fuselage pitching, the aircraft holds itself level at every speed. Your message doesn't tilt into a climb or nose over into a descent. It just glides, level, wherever the audience is looking.

A family from day one

Aurora is generated by a parametric design system rather than drawn as a one-off: the airframe's geometry and safety constraints live as code, and each variant is re-derived and re-validated around its payload. A bigger display means a regenerated aircraft, not a redesign program. It's how a focused team ships a family of aircraft instead of a single prototype.

We'll share more from the flight line here — the engineering decisions, the shows, and the occasional lesson learned the fun way. If you have a crowd and a message, we'd love to fly for you.