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January 26, 2024
Aurora Flight Sciences has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter large transport seaplane design.
January 10, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024 - Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to construct a groundbreaking full-scale X-plane. This aircraft, named the X-65, will serve as a techn
January 9, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024 - Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to construct a groundbreaking full-scale X-plane. This aircraft, named the X-65, will serve as a techn
January 5, 2024
ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA has progressed to the third phase of its Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, and Aurora Flight Sciences will now build a full-scale X-plane, the X-65, which will employ active flow control (AFC) actuators as its primary flight control method, the agency reports.
January 5, 2024
Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by DARPA to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of active flow control actuators for primary flight control.
January 5, 2024
The X-plane, designated X-65, aims to demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions.
January 4, 2024
US DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to begin construction of the future X-65 demonstrator, an X-plane that uses active flow control.
January 3, 2024
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
January 1, 2024
More than 1,000 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft conceptual designs have been published.
December 28, 2023
Aurora Flight Sciences, Bell Textron, Northrop Grumman and Piasecki Aircraft Corp. have begun designing prototypes of an experimental military aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiative. DARPA expects one of the contractors to finish designing, prototyping, building and demonstrating the VTOL aircraft by spring of 2027 as part of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies program.