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 removes a long list of familiar aircraft parts. The program wants to understand ...

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 ...

Pressurized-air active flow-control effectors are embedded in the upper surfaces of all the X-plane’s wing panels. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a ...

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a potential $42.2 million DARPA contract to build and fly an X-plane to demonstrate the benefits of designing an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...

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

American agency DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences say the fuselage of the X-65 active flow control (AFC) demonstrator will be ready in January 2026.

One doesn't have to be an aviator to understand how an aircraft works. In simplistic terms, engines push it through the air, the wings provide lift, and various control surfaces like stabilizers, ...