Corporate digital presence for an aviation holding with roots to 1988 — heavy cargo on An-124 Ruslan, second-largest cargo carrier worldwide (2002–2004), direct contractor to Lockheed Martin, the US government and the UN. Six languages, R3F aircraft, full historical regalia section.
https://polet-airlines.vercel.app/What users see. Identity, motion, UI craft, copy.
Institutional aerospace — a cold navy palette (#050912 → #0A1128) with sky-blue technical accents and red for livery and emergency semantics. Space Grotesk for headlines, JetBrains Mono for technical labels. Glass cards with backdrop-filter, film-grain overlay, a five-step ink scale built through color-mix.
What holds it up. Architecture, contracts, infra, latency.
Next.js 14 App Router with Server Components for instant first paint and SEO without sacrificing interactivity. Heavy WebGL imported via next/dynamic({ ssr: false }). The cargo aircraft is a real GLB exported from Cinema 4D — we rebuild vertex normals at runtime (the export was missing them), repaint materials in the site palette, and assemble a procedural HDR environment from six Lightformer panels without shipping a single HDR file.
The audience is sovereign wealth funds, corporate partners, government counterparties, regulators. The brief was explicit: no consumer-grade visual aggression, no marketing language. Engineering precision, documented reputation, technical superiority. We built a visual language called "institutional aerospace" — what an institutional player looks like, not what a marketing agency thinks they should look like.
A whole section drawn entirely from the client’s original certificates: Lockheed Martin EP-3E Recovery 2001, B.I.D. Geneva Gold Star 2000, IACA Trustee Membership signed by Larry Coyne, Madrid Transport Award 1999, US-Russia Bilateral Treaty rights, and four more. Custom SVG seals in six variants by category, a statistical key-performance panel, hover animations with proper cubic-bezier kinetics. The kind of detail that closes a board meeting.
The investor-relations form rejects fourteen public email providers — gmail, yahoo, mail.ru, protonmail, and so on. Only corporate addresses pass. This is not a UX nicety; it is positioning. It signals to the right counterparty that the form is for them and not for them.