DARPA wants to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft that does not use external mechanical flight controls. Aurora plans to fly an X-Plane in 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical element to their success laid in the refinement of the flight controls they used—wing warping—to guide the craft through the air. The ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is advancing to the next stage of a US military experiment aimed at developing novel methods of aircraft flight control. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft ...

It'll fly instead using Active Flow Control (AFC), using a series of nozzle arrays along the wings connected to a pressurized air system, capable of blowing controlled bursts of air that can directly ...

Active flow control (AFC) encompasses a range of techniques designed to alter fluid flow characteristics in real time by introducing targeted actuation. Central to many of these methods are fluidic ...

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 a ...

November 28, 2007 In a landmark demonstration, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have used "active flow control" technology to deploy munitions from a weapons bay at twice the speed of sound. The MK-82 ...

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 ...

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 ...

General Electric is investigating a range of fluidic techniques for active flow and combustion control, ranging from synthetic jets to cold plasma. The ability to effect large flow changes with small ...

Ming Zheng, Graham T. Reader, Dong Wang, Jun Zuo, Meiping Wang, Edward A. Mirosh, Arie van der Lee and Benlin Liu One-dimensional transient modeling techniques are adapted to analyze the thermal ...

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 an ...