Aurora Flight Sciences will start the detailed design of the novel, high-performance aircraft as it powers towards an X-plane demonstration flight.
Artist's conception of a DARPA plane from the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program.
The subsidiary of Boeing"will design a full-scale X-plane that relies solely on changes in air flow for in-flight maneuvers," DARPA wrote inof Aurora's award. Should the concept succeed, officials added, the design will be"a new phase in creation of an aircraft."Moving aircraft parts has been a necessary inconvenience for more than a century. On the one hand, control surfaces create drag and reduce fuel efficiency.
Some aircraft of the past have done away with one or more traditional moving surfaces, however."Tailless aircraft," for example, incorporate pitch and roll into the main wing but usually still require a rudder. Such aircraft have been around since at least the 1910s, with the now-retired supersonicThe last Concorde, a"tailless wing" type of aircraft, touches down at Filton airfield on November 23, 2003 in Bristol, England.
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