Aurora Flight Sciences is quietly turning a radical research sketch into metal, bolting on 30 ft wings that will help prove ...

American agency DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences say the fuselage of the X-65 active flow control (AFC) demonstrator will be ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has shared images of its X-65 active flow control demonstrator under assembly, with the prototype ...

DARPA’s X-65 Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors, or CRANE, is being built to test an approach that ...

DARPA, the Pentagon’s avant-garde advanced technologies research program, just revealed the name of a new drone technology demonstrator designed to test active flow control (AFC) systems, which could ...

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 ...

How Active Flow Control Could Redefine Aircraft Design. Since the dawn of aviation, almost every component of an aircraft has evolved. Rotating blades were replaced by turbines, t ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NATO study of active flow control (AFC) for tailless unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV) has concluded the technology is “feasible and reasonable” for flight control, at least for the ingress phase ...

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 ...