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Engineering Future Mobility
Harmony Aeronautics is a Texas-based engineering service start-up with a team of engineers and scientists who are passionate about developing advanced aircraft concepts and rotor and propeller technology. The team brings a combined 50+ years of experience in engineering research, analysis, simulation, and rotorcraft and aircraft prototype development and flight-testing. We believe that innovative ideas and technologies are key to the advancement of tomorrow’s mobility solutions.
Harmony Aeronautics was founded by a team of faculty and graduate students in 2018 during the team’s participation in the Boeing GoFly competition. The group of highly-skilled innovators and scientists designed, developed, and flight tested a personal flying electric aircraft featuring a quiet, compact coaxial rotor design. The Harmony team was one of ten Phase I winners with their paper design, and one of five Phase II winners with their 1/3rd scale prototype aircraft. For Phase-III, the team leveraged their diverse experience in developing rotorcraft concepts to design, construct, and flight test a full-scale 550-lb aircraft capable of carrying a 200-lb payload. The full-scale aircraft was built on a shoe-string budget of $320K, and featured an advanced rotor design which was remarkably quiet. So quiet, in fact, that the noise measured was less than 73 dB at a distance of 50 ft while hovering! Unfortunately, the aircraft was lost in an incident just before the competition, but the technology lives.
In 2021, Harmony secured a Phase-I STTR award through the AFWERX program, and the following year a Phase-II contract, which totaled $900K in DoD funding. The effort focused on developing an efficient and quiet propeller together with accurate simulation tools for predicting the aerodynamic, structural, and acoustic performance of propellers for high-speed S/VTOL aircraft. This experience resulted in a scalable propeller solution directly targeted at mitigating the noise of drones, UAS, eVTOL, and AAM concepts while preserving efficiency, endurance, and aircraft performance. Additionally, a state-of-the-art experimental test stand was designed and fabricated, with which a wide range of full-scale rotor and propeller designs can be systematically tested and characterized. The Harmony team’s engineering expertise encompasses both experimental hardware development as well as software coding and simulation. These projects often involve developing complex experimental test rigs and conducting high-, mid-, and low-fidelity simulation analyses. Located in College Station, TX near Texas A&M University, Harmony has convenient access to the Texas A&M RELLIS campus. The site features a large hangar for storage and extensive outdoor remote testing areas and runways, which the team uses frequently for aircraft flight testing and acoustic measurements. We would love to hear about your engineering needs, aircraft ideas, or, if you are shopping around for some quiet props, your propeller needs as well. We are confident that we can provide costeffective expert solutions. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any question.
