Kona’s projected maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) of 19,000 pounds would place it near the FAA’s Part 23 limit, Matyushev said.

As a result, we also know that another rendering that DAPRA previously released in relation to the SPRINT effort, seen below, was an earlier version of Aurora's concept. "Aurora is designing a high ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has been selected for phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane ...

Aurora Flight Sciences on Oct. 8 unveiled new details of a notional operational variant of the fan-in-wing concept it is proposing for a high-speed, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-Plane. The ...

The second of four designs has been revealed in the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-plane competition being held by the Pentagon’s secretive technology development agency. The US ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and control ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...

Testing at MIT's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel validates that the EL9's blown lift wing design unlocks novel aviation capabilities including the ability to take off and land in 150 feet CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

Testing at MIT's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel validates that the EL9's blown lift wing design unlocks novel aviation capabilities including the ability to take off and land in 150 feet This ...