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DARPA's X-65 active flow control demonstrator is taking shape
Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA are continuing the assembly of the X-65 CRANE demonstrator, targeting a first flight by 2027 ...
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Boeing’s X-65 jet demonstrator nears 1st flight, targeting 537 mph
Boeing’s X-65 experimental aircraft, designed under DARPA’s Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program, ...
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Pentagon-backed X-65 jet with 537 mph top speed moves closer to first flight
Aurora Flight Sciences has taken a major step forward in its experimental aircraft program, ...
Two decades after demonstrating the promise of active flow control, DARPA has returned to the topic with the goal of flying an X-plane that can finally take the technology over the transition hurdle ...
Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences is to co-invest with DARPA in completion and initial flight testing of the X-65 active flow control demonstrator, restarting the program after it ...
Should DARPA pick up the option on phase 3 of this project, Aurora will build the thing and get it into flight testing sometime in 2025. “Over the past several decades, the active flow control ...
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 ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued contracts to three industry teams to develop experimental aircraft (X-plane) based on active flow control, an area relatively little ...
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