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Engineering aircraft that
compete on the world stage.
Team Arcis is a student engineering team designing, building, and flying radio-controlled aircraft in SAE Aero Design and AIAA Design/Build/Fly competitions.
An engineering Team,
not just a club.
Arcis operates with technical divisions, a leadership hierarchy, and engineering processes built around real deliverables. Every member contributes to aircraft that actually fly in front of international judges.
The team has run continuously across multiple academic years, with each batch building on the last, carrying forward institutional knowledge, design history, and engineering standards.
Learn more about ArcisTwo competitions.
One engineering culture.
Design for Maximum Payload
SAE Aero Design Regular Class challenges teams to engineer radio controlled aircraft that carry the greatest possible payload within a defined set of mission rules. The competition evaluates design reports, system integration, and live flight performance.
Performance Driven Aircraft Design
AIAA DBF presents a multi-mission scoring scenario each year, requiring teams to optimise their aircraft geometry, payload, and flight profile against a unique set of technical objectives. The design report accounts for a significant portion of the final score.
The Engineering Process.
From concept to flight line.Every aircraft Arcis produces passes through a disciplined engineering cycle, simulation, prototyping, fabrication, testing, and iteration, before competition day.
Organised by division.
United by the aircraft.
Arcis is structured across several divisions: Aerodynamics, Structures, Avionics, Documentation and Marketing - each led by experienced members. The team is guided by faculty advisors and a core leadership of three.
Built across years,
not just seasons.
Arcis has accumulated several years of competition history, design archives, and alumni who have gone on to careers in aerospace, engineering, and research. Each season adds to a growing body of institutional knowledge.
View team historyOur sponsors make the aircraft possible.
