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DARPA's X-65 aircraft features a revolutionary design that will be used to test a new air control system that could change an entire century's worth of aircraft design paradigms.
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.
The X-plane, designated X-65, aims to demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions.
DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences have begun building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft to demonstrate a new method of flight control that uses no external moving parts.
US DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to begin construction of the future X-65 demonstrator, an X-plane that uses active flow control.