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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA plans to launch a program to fly an X-plane designed around active flow control with the award of contracts to conduct an extended conceptual design phase. Three contracts could be awarded ...

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 ...

A research team has demonstrated the use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...