The Week In Technology, Dec. 1-5, 2025

active-flow-control X-plane

Aurora and DARPA will jointly fund flight tests of the active-flow-control X-plane.

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
Aurora Coinvests To Fly X-65 Aurora Flight Sciences plans to coinvest with DARPA in completion and initial flight testing of the X-65 active-flow-control demonstrator, restarting the program after it was paused earlier this year because of budget and schedule overruns. Boeing subsidiary Aurora says...
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