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 ...

Aurora Flight Sciences is quietly turning a radical research sketch into metal, bolting on 30 ft wings that will help prove whether a jet can steer with air instead of moving parts. The X-65, built ...

Emerging aviation technologies developer Aurora Flight Sciences is progressing with assembly of its prototype X-65 active flow control demonstrator. Aurora on 20 November shared an image of the X-65 ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing a secretive new X-plane for the US military, designated the X-65. Aurora is under contract to develop the experimental jet aircraft for ...

Credit: Active flow control could enable novel configurations for aircraft. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is the first company to receive a contract under a new DARPA program to build an ...

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 ...