
Boeing's [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences plans to fly an Active Flow Control (AFC) demonstrator in 2025 under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. Boeing, Lockheed Martin [LMT], and BAE Systems have participated in CRANE. This week, DARPA picked Aurora to move into the detailed design phase of the program. "This follows successful completion of the project’s Phase 1 preliminary design, which resulted in an innovative testbed aircraft that used AFC…