Aurora To Design Active Flow-Control X-Plane For DARPA

TU Delft
Credit: Active flow control could enable novel configurations for aircraft.
Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is the first company to receive a contract under a new DARPA program to build an X-plane designed around active flow control. The agency plans to award three contracts for the conceptual-design Phase 0 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel...
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