Tiny Byte Studio
V3 cinema platform
A heavy-lift cinema airframe you specify to the job, not to the catalogue. Three airframes, four camera blocks, one flight controller — configured here, built in six weeks.
The platform
Every V3 shares a flight stack, a battery format and a payload bus. Move a crew from the Compact to the Heavy Lift and the muscle memory, the spares and the pre-flight all carry over.
Unidirectional carbon booms into machined 7075 clamps. The Compact and Standard fold without tools; the Heavy Lift runs coaxial X8 for full motor redundancy over people.
Three-axis heads balanced at the factory for the exact block you order. Full-frame 8K, Super35 6K, or the prism-folded 200 mm periscope for compression from stand-off distance.
Repeat a dolly move to the centimetre with the RTK mast, or hand the frame between two operators mid-shot. Interior passes run on the LiDAR array with no GNSS at all.
Configure
Every choice below changes the aircraft in the viewport and recalculates mass, endurance and noise from it. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.
This configurator needs WebGL, which this browser has not made available. Every specification below still calculates — only the aircraft preview is missing.
Indicative pricing for a fictional product. No order is placed and no data leaves this page.
Specifications
Endurance, noise and hover draw are computed for the reference build in each column. Your configuration appears in the last column as you change it.
| Model | V3 CompactFolding · run-and-gun | V3 StandardThe working airframe | V3 Heavy LiftCoaxial X8 | Your buildas configured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Layout | Quad, folding | Quad, folding | Coaxial X8 | — |
| Diagonal | 685 mm | 890 mm | 1120 mm | — |
| Max rotor | 17 in | 22 in | 24 in | — |
| Dry weight | 2.5 kg | 3.4 kg | 5.2 kg | — |
| MTOW | 7.5 kg | 10.5 kg | 16.0 kg | — |
| All-up weight as shown | 6.80 kg | 8.82 kg | 12.48 kg | — |
| Endurance as shown | 31.9 min | 26.1 min | 20.0 min | — |
| Rotor noise | 72 dB | 74 dB | 71 dB | — |
| Top speed | 75 km/h | 90 km/h | 78 km/h | — |
| Hover draw | 820 W | 1003 W | 1748 W | — |
| Camera block as shown | Aperture S35 | Aperture FF8 | Aperture LX | — |
| Price as shown | $21,300 | $30,950 | $48,800 | — |
Figures are computed by the same model that drives the configurator. Reference builds: Compact with S35 and pads; Standard with FF8, retracts and FPV; Heavy Lift with the LX periscope, Cine-Quiet rotors, extended packs and skids.
Shot library
Frame references from the V3 platform, drawn as graphics rather than photographs — this is a design prototype, so there is no real footage to show and nothing here is presented as a real photograph.
Ownership
Six weeks for Compact and Standard, nine for Heavy Lift and periscope builds. Every head is balanced at the factory against your exact lens set, so it arrives ready to fly rather than ready to tune.
Included with every airframe, on site or at the works. Two operators, the full pre-flight, one emergency-procedure session and a signed-off check ride.
A named engineer, a 48-hour loan airframe anywhere in the continental US, and arm, motor and gimbal spares held in stock for eight years from purchase.
Configure a V3 and we will quote it inside two working days.
Tiny Byte Studio
Nightjar is a prototype, not a client. We invent a business when we want to prove a technique end to end — a real product needs a real page around it, and a configurator only means something if there's something to configure.
The airframe is generated procedurally in WebGL with three.js. No model files, no image assets — every part you see is drawn from code as you change it.
Every combination resolves to a shareable link, so a build survives being sent to somebody else.
No framework and no build step, served from Cloudflare's edge — the same stack we ship client work on.
Nightjar Aeroworks is a fictional company. It has no products, no customers and no premises. The V3 platform, the Aperture camera blocks, the specifications, the address and the telephone number were all invented for this prototype, and the number sits in the 555 range reserved for fiction. Nothing on this page is a real offer or a real product. The build is by Tiny Byte Studio — see the other prototypes.
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