Aurora Tests Aircraft Enabled By Flow Control

Aurora joined-wing aircraft
Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
Aurora Flight Sciences has completed wind-tunnel tests of a candidate X-plane for a DARPA program to demonstrate a novel aircraft configuration enabled by active flight control. The Boeing subsidiary is one of three companies working on Phase 1 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel...
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