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Aerospace & Drones

36 products, each exploded into a recursive bill of materials. Open one and keep clicking down to the bolts.

Aerobatic Aircraft
Aerobatic Aircraft A high-performance aircraft engineered for sustained inverted flight and high-G maneuvers, with aerobatic-rated engine, fuel system, and airframe. 41 parts · 8 subsystems
Agricultural Aircraft
Agricultural Aircraft A single-seat turboprop built around a chemical hopper, spraying crops at 3 m height and 230 km/h from a low-mounted wing. 233 parts · 9 subsystems
Aircraft APU
Aircraft APU A small gas turbine in the tailcone supplying electrical power and bleed air on the ground and in flight, independent of the main engines. 106 parts · 8 subsystems
Amphibious Seaplane
Amphibious Seaplane A light aircraft with a stepped boat hull and retractable wheels, operating equally from runways and open water. 163 parts · 8 subsystems
Baggage Tug
Baggage Tug A small ground-support tractor designed to tow baggage carts and other ground equipment on airport aprons, powered by electric or diesel drive. 47 parts · 8 subsystems
Business Jet
Business Jet A super-midsize twin-turbofan executive aircraft with aft-mounted engines, T-tail and an eight-passenger cabin. 1,654 parts · 9 subsystems
Cargo Delivery Drone
Cargo Delivery Drone A heavy-lift hexacopter UAV that flies parcels to a delivery point and lowers them by winch. 545 parts · 12 subsystems
Commercial Airliner
Commercial Airliner A narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner. 604,977 parts · 11 subsystems
CubeSat
CubeSat A 3U nanosatellite for low-Earth-orbit imaging missions. 158 parts · 9 subsystems
Delivery Drone
Delivery Drone A multirotor unmanned aircraft carrying a package payload, equipped with BVLOS (beyond-visual-line-of-sight) avionics, parachute, and batteries for autonomous cargo delivery. 80 parts · 8 subsystems
Ejection Seat
Ejection Seat A rocket-propelled escape seat that blasts a pilot clear of a stricken aircraft and lands them under parachute, surviving everything from zero-zero to 600 knots. 53 parts · 8 subsystems
eVTOL Air Taxi
eVTOL Air Taxi A piloted electric-vertical-takeoff aircraft transitioning to horizontal cruise flight for urban air mobility, carrying 4–5 passengers on short city routes. 261 parts · 8 subsystems
Fixed-Wing UAV
Fixed-Wing UAV A fixed-wing electric unmanned surveillance aircraft. 308 parts · 10 subsystems
Full-Flight Simulator
Full-Flight Simulator A Level D training device pairing a replica airliner cockpit with a six-axis motion platform and collimated visual system, certified so pilots can qualify on type without flying the aircraft. 379 parts · 7 subsystems
Glider Launch Winch
Glider Launch Winch A ground-based winch with cable and pulley system that launches unpowered sailplanes (gliders) by rapid acceleration to roughly 400 m altitude in under 30 seconds. 53 parts · 8 subsystems
Gyroplane
Gyroplane A rotorcraft whose unpowered rotor autorotates in the airflow for lift while a pusher propeller provides thrust. 168 parts · 9 subsystems
Hang Glider
Hang Glider A foot-launched flex-wing glider whose pilot hangs prone beneath a fabric-covered aluminium airframe and steers by weight shift. 135 parts · 8 subsystems
Helicopter
Helicopter A single-main-rotor light turbine helicopter with a turboshaft engine, main and tail rotor systems, and a glass cockpit. 218 parts · 10 subsystems
Hot Air Balloon
Hot Air Balloon A lighter-than-air aircraft that lifts a wicker basket by heating the air inside a fabric envelope with propane burners. 146 parts · 6 subsystems
Jet Bridge
Jet Bridge A wheeled boarding tunnel that extends and rotates to an aircraft door, carrying passengers from the terminal building to the cabin entrance. 62 parts · 8 subsystems
Jet Trainer Aircraft
Jet Trainer Aircraft A tandem-seat advanced trainer powered by a single turbofan, used to take military pilots from basic flying to fast-jet operations. 319 parts · 8 subsystems
Jumbo Jet (747-class)
Jumbo Jet (747-class) A four-engine wide-body airliner of roughly six million parts — Boeing famously quotes six million for a 747, half of them fasteners — carrying 400+ passengers 13,000 km at Mach 0.85. 5,916,287 parts · 9 subsystems
Non-Rigid Airship (Blimp)
Non-Rigid Airship (Blimp) A helium-filled airship whose envelope keeps its shape by internal pressure alone, carrying a gondola, engines and tail fins. 336 parts · 8 subsystems
Paraglider
Paraglider An unpowered fabric wing (parachute-like canopy) with suspension lines and a harness, launched by foot or tow, capable of soaring in thermals to gain altitude. 98 parts · 8 subsystems
Paramotor
Paramotor A backpack two-stroke engine and propeller unit that lets a paraglider pilot launch on foot and climb under power. 63 parts · 9 subsystems
Passenger Boarding Stairs
Passenger Boarding Stairs A mobile elevated stairway that positions its flight of steps at an aircraft cabin door, allowing self-boarding when a jet bridge is unavailable. 104 parts · 8 subsystems
Quadcopter Drone
Quadcopter Drone A camera quadcopter UAV. 244 parts · 7 subsystems
Sailplane Glider
Sailplane Glider A high-aspect-ratio composite sailplane built for soaring flight. 139 parts · 10 subsystems
Sounding Rocket
Sounding Rocket A single-stage suborbital research rocket for upper-atmosphere science. 344 parts · 7 subsystems
Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Subsonic Wind Tunnel A low-speed (0–100 m/s) aerodynamic test facility that accelerates air through a contraction cone over a test section, allowing measurement of lift and drag on scale models. 51 parts · 8 subsystems
Tandem Parachute Rig
Tandem Parachute Rig A dual-parachute system worn by an instructor, carrying a single passenger in a shared harness, deployed via drogue and main-canopy sequence. 64 parts · 8 subsystems
Tiltrotor UAV
Tiltrotor UAV A VTOL drone whose two wingtip rotor nacelles tilt from vertical for hover to horizontal for efficient wing-borne cruise. 341 parts · 8 subsystems
Turbofan Jet Engine
Turbofan Jet Engine A high-bypass turbofan aircraft engine. 1,936 parts · 12 subsystems
Ultralight Aircraft
Ultralight Aircraft A single-seat fixed-wing ultralight with a Rotax four-stroke engine. 455 parts · 9 subsystems
Weather Radiosonde
Weather Radiosonde A 110-gram expendable instrument carried to 35 km by weather balloon, telemetering pressure, temperature, humidity and wind back to a ground station. 33 parts · 7 subsystems
Wide-Body Airliner
Wide-Body Airliner A long-haul twin-aisle airliner of roughly four million parts: a multi-section pressurised fuselage, two high-aspect wings, four (or two) large turbofans, and cabin, avionics and wiring systems integrated from ~1,500 supplier companies. 3,929,416 parts · 10 subsystems