Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase.
Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft as it receives funding to proceed to a preliminary design review under a DARPA project to fly an X-plane demonstrator. Boeing-owned Aurora is the first performer to be...
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