Boeing and the US Air Force have demonstrated that active flow control can enable safe munitions release from a weapons bay at high supersonic speed, paving the way for future strike aircraft to ...

On all three key fronts in aviation's battle against fuel burn - aircraft weight, engine efficiency and drag - there are promising applications of nanomaterials. However, as a recent London ...

November 28, 2007 In a landmark demonstration, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have used "active flow control" technology to deploy munitions from a weapons bay at twice the speed of sound.

The active flow control is implemented using a patent-pending Coanda valve designed by Williams and his students, and this was their first chance to show the design's success on an aircraft.

Active flow control (AFC) encompasses a range of techniques designed to alter fluid flow characteristics in real time by introducing targeted actuation. Central to many of these methods are ...

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The preliminary report from the investigationg into last month's deadly Air India crash showed that seconds after takeoff, ...

The BAE Systems MAGMA UAV demonstrated maneuvering flight through the use of flow control earlier this year in Wales. BAE Systems When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical ...

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A NATO study of active flow control (AFC) for tailless unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV) has concluded the technology is “feasible and reasonable” for flight control, at least for the ...

Active Flow Control (AFC): Techniques that apply external actuation to modify flow dynamics, thereby enhancing performance parameters such as drag reduction, lift improvement, ...