Boeing Subsidiary Building Airplane with No Traditional Control Surfaces for U.S. Government
Aurora Flight Sciences will work with the Department of Defense to build and test the experimental X-65 demonstrator aircraft.
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Aurora Flight Sciences will work with the Department of Defense to build and test the experimental X-65 demonstrator aircraft.
The program seeks to revolutionize how the Pentagon approaches both sealift and airlift, using a trick of physics in low-altitude flight.
The Liberty Lifter program aims to change how the Pentagon tackles air and sealift through a well-known, but difficult-to-use physics trick.
The first development contract for Liberty Lifter could be issued by October.
Partly a wing-in-ground-effect vessel and partly a flying boat, DARPA plans full-scale flight demonstrator in 2028.