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 ...

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

The CRANE project exploring active-flow control technologies could contribute to developing extremely low-observable aircraft in the future. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ...

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 ...

Aurora Flight Sciences is to co-invest with DARPA in completion and initial flight testing of the X-65 active flow control ...

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 ...

Active flow control using plasma actuators offers a novel and increasingly influential method for manipulating aerodynamic flows. By utilising the dielectric barrier discharge mechanism, these devices ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has shared images of its X-65 active flow control demonstrator under assembly, with the prototype ...

Should DARPA pick up the option on phase 3 of this project, Aurora will build the thing and get it into flight testing sometime in 2025. “Over the past several decades, the active flow control ...

Active flow control effectors are mounted on the D-90’s outboard wing trailing edges. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) have flown a ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, to start detailed design of an experimental aircraft that uses air bursts to maneuver. (Aurora ...