The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, to start detailed design of an experimental aircraft that uses air bursts to maneuver. (Aurora ...

Active flow control effectors are mounted on the D-90’s outboard wing trailing edges. Credit: Illinois Institute of Technology Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) have flown a ...

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 ...

All X, no plane is how program manager Alexander Walan characterizes DARPA’s recent efforts to build and fly experimental aircraft. After a spate of projects being terminated before reaching flight, ...

The State of New York is awarding ATDynamics a $499,645 grant to develop active flow control technology designed to reduce aerodynamic drag by modifying airflow at the rear of tractor-trailers, the ...

NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Langley Research Center, in partnership with The Boeing Co., have completed wind tunnel testing of a full-scale Boeing 757 vertical tail model equipped with ...

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 ...

Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing's ecoDemonstrator 757. In ...

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 ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing a secretive new X-plane for the US military, designated the X-65. Aurora is under contract to develop the experimental jet aircraft for ...

A research team has demonstrated the use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in ...