It'll fly instead using Active Flow Control (AFC), using a series of nozzle arrays along the wings connected to a pressurized air system, capable of blowing controlled bursts of air that can directly ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA's CRANE program seeks proposals for a novel aircraft primarily designed around Active Flow Control (AFC) technologies. The program's core aim is to eliminate traditional moving control surfaces, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a US defence contract to develop an experimental aircraft that can fly without traditional control surfaces like rudders, flaps and ailerons. The US ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The premise behind Active Flow Control is eliminating reliance on the flight control surfaces we currently use to manage the direction of airflow over a jet (and in ...