VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations
Professional, Experimental, and Educational Aircraft for X-Plane Flight Simulator.
Projects range from the SR-71-TB Blackbird, C-47 Skytrain, 510X Very Light Jet and 902X-NTR (No-Tail-Rotor), to the highly engineered Robinson R44/R66, Guimbal Cabri G2, concept prototypes, autogyros, ULM helicopters and experimental aircraft. Driven by 'Test-Pilot' philosophy, VSKYLABS blends engineering accuracy, advanced flight dynamics and immersive systems modeling.
The VSKYLABS fleet is built on two core principles: Platform resilience and Flight-envelope authenticity.
'X-Plane Native': by Design
VSKYLABS aircraft architecture follows a strict zero third-party plugin philosophy, designed to become part of X-Plane's DNA. Every aircraft is developed to remain fully X-Plane native with the objective of having maximum long-term add-on resilience in the ever-evolving X-Plane Flight Simulator. When X-Plane evolves, the VSKYLABS aircraft will most likely endure the transit to the new version, or will be the first to be updated and fly in the new version, since they 'speak' the same language as the core engine.
This approach has allowed aircraft originally released for X-Plane 9, 10 and 11 to transition through major platform generations into X-Plane 12 standards. At the launch of X-Plane 12 Early Access, following deep yet predictable update process, the entire active fleet was operational from day one.
The Test-Pilot Philosophy
In short, the VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot' series was introduced as an evolution of the 'Study-Level' terminology, with the focus shifted toward aircraft flight handling in all phases of flight, flight envelope and flight performance engineering.
Over time, this philosophy spread laterally across the VSKYLABS fleet, and today all VSKYLABS aircraft carry the 'Test-Pilot' stamp. This is not related to systems complexity, but because of how they fly.
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In the video - short edits taken during the initial test flights trials of the NTR system calibration.
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