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 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 ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it chose Aurora Flight Sciences to begin the next phase in development of an aircraft that can fly without using moveable control ...

Two decades after demonstrating the promise of active flow control, DARPA has returned to the topic with the goal of flying an X-plane that can finally take the technology over the transition hurdle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA and Aurora, subsidiary of Boeing, are making a breakthrough X-plane without regular flights controls. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program aims to design, ...

David Williams, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, is a core member of the AVT-239/295 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) research group that ...

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 ...