DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences Building Full Scale X-65 Plane With No Moving Control
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6HJJZ)
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The X-65 flight is controlled by using jets of air from a pressurized ...