Design Build Fly - RC plane building team at Johns Hopkins University

We at Design Build Fly are a multi-disciplinary club unified in our mission of designing and building an RC-plane from scratch to compete at the annual AIAA DBF competition

Discover what we do!

Step into any aspect of plane production that interests you

Design

Each year, new constraints are required for our plane, giving us ample opportunity to come up with creative solutions. Our team utilizes CAD and other software to optimize our plane!

Build

With access to the entirety of the Mechanical Engineering department's tools, we piece together our plane to turn it form dream to reality.

Fly

Finally, we put our plane to the test! It may be more apt to call this step 'Crash,' but each crashed prototype is experience for both our flyers and designers to utilize for the next prototype.