Aurora Flight Sciences is quietly turning a radical research sketch into metal, bolting on 30 ft wings that will help prove ...

DARPA’s X-65 Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors, or CRANE, is being built to test an approach that ...

All X, no plane is how program manager Alexander Walan characterizes DARPA’s recent efforts to build and fly experimental aircraft. After a spate of projects being terminated before reaching flight, ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) ...

How Active Flow Control Could Redefine Aircraft Design. Since the dawn of aviation, almost every component of an aircraft has evolved. Rotating blades were replaced by turbines, t ...

The X-plane, designated X-65, aims to demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, has begun ...

DARPA wants to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft that does not use external mechanical flight controls. Aurora plans to fly an X-Plane in 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued contracts to three industry teams to develop experimental aircraft (X-plane) based on active flow control, an area relatively little ...

DARPA plans to brief interested bidders on a new program to build and test a novel aircraft designed around active flow control (AFC) technologies. The goal is to demonstrate an aircraft that can fly ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is advancing to the next stage of a US military experiment aimed at developing novel methods of aircraft flight control. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft ...

BAE Systems supports DARPA CRANE programme to improve aircraft performance with active flow control. BAE Systems announced on 6 September that it will ‘progress the design and testing of revolutionary ...

Boeing and the US Air Force have demonstrated that active flow control can enable safe munitions release from a weapons bay at high supersonic speed, paving the way for future strike aircraft to ...