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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

NATO task group five-year assessment says active flow control can be used to fly a stealthy unmanned combat aircraft, at least for part of a strike mission.

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Aurora will build the plane with both traditional flaps and rudders and active flow control effectors, with the latter bunch spread all over the lifting surfaces.

In Phase 1, which is already completed, Aurora created an aircraft that was able to use active flow control to demonstrate control in a wind tunnel test.

DARPA just revealed the name of a new drone technology demonstrator designed to test active flow control (AFC) systems: the X-65.