Rob McDonald

Freelance aerospace engineer and software developer. I build tools for conceptual aircraft design, develop methods for understanding electric flight (eVTOL and eCTOL), and work on problems at the intersection of engineering analysis and visualization.

Project lead and primary developer of OpenVSP and creator of UnPlotter. Formerly at Uber Elevate and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

OpenVSP

A parametric aircraft geometry tool for conceptual design.

Batteries Are Not Fuel

Battery behavior from the perspective of aircraft design.

Aero Tools

Miscellaneous aerospace tools.

UnPlotter

Extract numerical data from figures in PDF files.

Plotting Tools

Utilities to improve plotting and visualization.

3D Printing

3D printable models and design files.