Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a potential $42.2 million DARPA contract to build and fly an X-plane to demonstrate the benefits of designing an aircraft enabled by active flow control.
A new DARPA aircraft designed by Aurora Flight Sciences to experiment with active flow control technology has been designated the X-65, elevating the program’s status and indirectly revealing the existence of two other X-planes. DARPA announced the new designation for the 7,000-lb.-class uncrewed...
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