
Aurora Flight Sciences successfully flew a subscale vehicle demonstrator (SVD) of its LightningStrike Vertical Take-off and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) at a U.S. military facility for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company said Monday.The flight was meant to meet a DARPA risk reduction requirement for the test craft that focused on validation of the aerodynamics design and flight control system.The SVD is a 20 percent scale flight, weighing 325 pounds, model of the full scale demonstrator…