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Aurora Flight Sciences Awarded by DARPA to Design X-Plane Without Moving Control Surfaces

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Monday, June 22nd, 2020

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Aurora Flight Sciences Awarded by DARPA to Design X-Plane Without Moving Control Surfaces

Aurora Flight Sciences was awarded $7.1 million by DARPA to conduct preliminary design work on an aircraft without movable control surfaces. (DARPA)

Boeing [BA] subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the first awardee in a potential X-plane project designed to explore the use of active flow control technologies as a primary control method for aircraft, eliminating movable surfaces. The $7.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, announced June 19, is expected to be one of three DARPA will make in the coming weeks for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, funding Aurora…

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