DARPA Funds Aurora X-65 CRANE Active Flow Control Demonstrator
The X-65 fuselage is densely packed with air compression, cooling and plumbing for the AFC system.
Credit: DARPA
Since the Wright brothers warped the wings of their Flyer, most aircraft have used movable surfaces for flight control. Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a contract to develop and fly an aircraft that instead uses active flow control—jets of pressurized air that blow the lifting surfaces to...
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