Parametric machines

The air, checked.

The VX-1's downforce and drag were targets, written into its specification and never computed. The Nyx's lift and stability came from our own vortex-lattice code and a textbook drag polar. Here both go through OpenFOAM, the open-source CFD suite used across industry and research, on the geometry exactly as it is built, and every number we published is set beside what the solver says.

4.55−0.88
The VX-1's downforce with its fans stopped, in square metres of CL·A. We said the floor alone made 3.35; sealed for the fans, it lifts.

VX-1 Vortex

The ground-effect fan car, at 180 km/h

The run is still going; its numbers appear here when it finishes.

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Converging

Where the downforce acts

Nyx

The canard-delta fighter, clean, powered off

The runs are still going; their numbers appear here when they finish.

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Lift against angle of attack

Pitching moment about the CG

How it was run