Windtunnel testing had indicated that, without active flow control, the bomb would have ... Bowers says the jets would be powered by engine bleed air and use a convergent-divergent passage to ...

Pictures suggest it will be propelled by a single jet engine with an intake under ... The idea behind active flow control is to use nozzles on the aircraft to blast jets of air that dynamically ...

It'll fly instead using Active Flow Control (AFC), using a series of nozzle arrays along the wings connected to a pressurized air system, capable of blowing controlled bursts of air that can ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it's time for some airplanes to drop elevators, flaps and rudders for flight control ... on changes in air flow for in-flight ...

#ActiveFlowControl #XPlane “Aurora’s X-plane candidate uses active flow control (AFC) for multiple effects, including flight control at tactical speeds and performance enhancement across the ...

DARPA's latest X-plane project uses active flow control instead of moveable control surfaces. [Courtesy: DARPA] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it chose Aurora ...

Then, midflight, they switched control to a second pilot who operated the active flow control system. In the first test, the team found that the active flow control system actually provided more ...

"We can run test conditions for hours, allowing us to experiment with new flow sensors and control approaches on a realistic engine geometry," Dedic said. Goyne explained that "scramjets," short ...

The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program aims to design, build, and flight test a novel X-plane that incorporates Active Flow Control (AFC) as a primary design ...

Pressurized-air active flow-control effectors are embedded in the upper surfaces of all the X-plane’s wing panels. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won ...