RCAIDE is an open-source, python-based platform for designing, analyzing, and optimizing conventional passenger, drone, supersonic, and all/hybrid-electric aircraft. Developed by the Aerospace Research Community LLC, RCAIDE was conceived out of the idea to continuously build upon previously validated work to reduce latency in the design process. It can be therefore thought of as a computational test bench for you to push the barriers of one or many disciplines within aerospace with reassurance that other aspects or analyses required to perform full systems analyses will be covered.  At UIUC, we work on a fork of this code, called RCAIDE-UIUC.