Spirit Aero Wins High-Speed Wing Work For DARPA

An Air Force Institute of Technology-developed CAD-model of a generic hypersonic vehicle.

Credit: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Spirit AeroSystems will build and test a large, experimental wing to support high-speed aircraft applications under a new DARPA program. The Pentagon’s disruptive science and technology agency announced the $12.9 million award to Spirit for the Caliente program on March 13. The announcement noted...

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