We are LIFT - lifting innovation, creativity and real-word experience through hands-on drone engineering.

Building drones that fly smarter and go further.

Lift HVL is the student team crafting high-performance UAVs - designing airframes, writing flight software, and pushing new pilots into the sky. Join the crew and start lifting your skills to the sky.

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Hardware and firmware in the lab

Small teams own end-to-end missions: CAD to carbon, avionics calibration to ground control UX.

Airframe & CAD

Composite frames, rapid prototyping, and aerodynamic tuning tailored for long-range and race builds.

Electronics & Avionics

Flight controllers, radio links, and telemetry stacks with live dashboards and black-box logging.

Autonomy & AI

Path-planning, computer vision, and on-board models that help our drones see, map, and react.

Departments

Pick a department and start building

Each department has its own focus, mentors, and weekly sessions.

Designing the flying skeleton and muscles of our drones.

Build, test, and iterate airframes that balance speed, endurance, and payload needs. From CAD to carbon fiber layups, you will own the physical design and fabrication of our drones. Get hands-on experience with composite materials, structural analysis, and flight testing to bring our designs to life.

Students who like design, materials, and hands-on fabrication.

Contact: mechanical@lifthvl.no

Focus areas