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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA’s X-65 aircraft is coming together at Aurora Flight Sciences’ Bridgeport, West Virginia, facility. The fuselage is being assembled and awaits its radical diamond-shaped wing. This uncrewed test ...

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 ...

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences is to co-invest with DARPA in completion and initial flight testing of the X-65 active flow control demonstrator, restarting the program after it ...

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a potential $42.2 million DARPA contract to build and fly an X-plane to demonstrate the benefits of designing an ...

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of ...

Aviation, as humanity has been experiencing for the past 120 years or so, means an aircraft needs engines to take off and fly, wings to keep it in the air, and physical control surfaces (stabilizers, ...

Active flow control using plasma actuators offers a novel and increasingly influential method for manipulating aerodynamic flows. By utilising the dielectric barrier discharge mechanism, these devices ...