Maiden

Everything about a model in one place: what it weighs, where it balances, which pack flew it last, and what you told yourself to check next time.

• Your hangar. Each aircraft with photos, notes and a running list of open issues. Electric, glow, gas or glider. Tap an NFC tag on the model to open it straight from the Lock Screen.
• Balance and CG. The centre of gravity from the wing dimensions, for a simple trapezoid or a multi-panel wing, drawn against the wing rather than given as a bare number. Or photograph the wing on a sheet of paper and let the camera measure the outline.
• Bench tools. Control surface throws, wing incidence, dihedral and washout from the motion sensors. Find the CG by weighing the model on two scales, and measure a wingspan with the tape measure.
• Batteries. Every LiPo with its cycle count, internal resistance and charge history, so you see a pack going soft before it lets you down. Scan a battery label to add it, and tap the pack's NFC tag to log a charge.
• Pre-flight checklists. A checklist per aircraft, run at the field. Have it read aloud, or go hands-free and just say “check” with the phone in your pocket. Anything you flagged after the last flight comes first next time.
• Flight timer. On the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. On Apple Watch it taps your wrist, so you get your warning without looking down.
• Flight log. Log a flight by speaking after you land, or ask Siri. Flights build into a history per aircraft and a weekly overview across the hangar.
• Engine tuning. Hold the phone near a running glow or gas engine and Maiden reads the RPM from the sound. Needle settings account for the air pressure and temperature at your field.
• Made for iPad. The hangar, the CG diagram and the flight history side by side, with text that stays readable at arm's length on a workbench, in any orientation.
• iCloud sync. Your hangar on your iPhone and iPad, through your own iCloud.
• Apple Intelligence. Optional, on iOS and iPadOS 26: tidy up flight notes and ask your logbook questions.