Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab is modeled closely after the actual Red Bull Flugtag event, where participants build flying machines and jump off a ramp into water, trying to fly as far as they can before getting wet.

In Flight Lab, users draw simple outlines, which are automatically translated into a 3D airplane model. The shape, relative proportions, and the selected material of a plane determine its flight characteristics.

Users can take their creations into a flight simulator, based on a realistic physics engine, to test them or compete with them for the highest score.