Aurora’s CRANE X-Plane Will Use Active Flow Control For Flight Control
The X-plane will have 14 AFC arrays (light color) on the coplanar joined wing and twin tails.
Credit: DARPA
Two decades after demonstrating the promise of active flow control, DARPA has returned to the topic with the goal of flying an X-plane that can finally take the technology over the transition hurdle from research into development of future aircraft. What has changed over those 20 years is that now...
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