NFC 2027 – Neues Fliegen

New Flying Competition 2027

Neues Fliegen e.V. is happy to announce the sixth iteration of the New Flying Competition (NFC) set for 2027

Task Description

From the start, the competition is aligned with the current aerospace industry. Following a producitve discourse with partners representing the university HAW Hamburg and the industry around Hamburg, including the DLR and Airbus, the team formulated the competition task. The overall goal of this competition can be summarized as the following:

Design, predict, manufacture, and fly a model aircraft based on a flight profile for a humanitarian aid mission, where the aircraft must adhere to real-life operational difficulties encountered with infrastructure. The aircraft will receive scoring based on results from the flight of this profile.

Numerical methods are becoming a cornerstone in early development due to continued improvements through the years. The teams ability to predict their design’s performance accurately is emphasized in this competition, where the theoretical predictions provided will be compared to physical flight performance in a performance flight task and their deviations scored. This not only helps attendees improve their ability to predict actual flight characteristics, but also gives the teams a basis for comparing their prediction capabilites to the final product.

For more detailed informations about the task, refer to the links provided below. These give links to download both the Competition Task as well as the Rules of the New Flying Competition documents. The Competition Task is the primary document for the competition and outlines many aspects that need to be accounted for during design.

Registration

Registration is open with the release of this website, and per the documentation inside the Competition Task document.

Documents

Competition Task v1.1 (.pdf)

Rules of the New Flying Competition 2027 v1.0 (.pdf)

FAQ

This section provides FAQ already answered by the organizing team at some point. Quickly resolved questions are outlined below, while more elaborate questions that change the document itself will reference the change in the relevant document itself.

Where is the Rules of the New Flying Competition document?

31.03.2026: This had to be delayed until after the release of the NFC. We will upload the Rules of the New Flying Competition as soon as possible. All relevant rules and guidelines for the aircraft’s design are included in the Competition Task document.

30.04.2026: The Rules of the New Flying Competition 2027 have been uploaded. Changes made will be informed to all participating teams accordingly.

Updates

30.04.2026 – Version 1.0 of Rules of the New Flying Competition 2027 uploaded

02.04.2026 – Version 1.1 of Competition Task uploaded