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 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 ...

When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical element to their success laid in the refinement of the flight controls they used—wing warping—to guide the craft through the air. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Active flow control (AFC) encompasses a range of techniques designed to alter fluid flow characteristics in real time by introducing targeted actuation. Central to many of these methods are fluidic ...

November 28, 2007 In a landmark demonstration, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have used "active flow control" technology to deploy munitions from a weapons bay at twice the speed of sound. The MK-82 ...

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 ...

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 ...