The goal is to demonstrate significant efficiency benefits of active flow control, as well as improvements in aircraft cost, weight, performance, and reliability.

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 ...

The X-plane effort aims to produce an aircraft that uses so-called active flow control, rather than traditional aerodynamic control surfaces such as rudders and flaps, to improve flight performance.

The active flow control is implemented using a patent-pending Coanda valve designed by Williams and his students, and this was their first chance to show the design's success on an aircraft.

A new X-plane is intended to use active flow control while eliminating moveable control surfaces in the name of increased efficiency.

DARPA enters a new phase in creation of an aircraft with no exterior moving parts. @AuroraFlightSci will design a full-scale X-plane that relies solely on changes in air flow for in-flight maneuvers.

The Boeing subsidiary is designing an aircraft for the US military that can fly without traditional mechanical control surfaces, as part of an attempt to increase aerodynamic performance.

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 ...

Last week, DARPA announced its latest request for new ideas in the arena of flight controls, seeking those who would contribute to the CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effecters ...

Active flow control makes aircraft safer to fly in dangerous environments, with the added benefit of offering supermaneuverability beyond what conventional controls will ever achieve.

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control ...

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 ...