DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

DARPA’s X-65 aircraft is coming together at Aurora Flight Sciences’ Bridgeport, West Virginia, facility. The fuselage is being assembled and awaits its radical diamond-shaped wing. This uncrewed test ...

One doesn't have to be an aviator to understand how an aircraft works. In simplistic terms, engines push it through the air, the wings provide lift, and various control surfaces like stabilizers, ...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a $254.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to repair the flight control surfaces of the military branch’s Super Hornet and Growler planes. Boeing will ...

This year the world will be celebrating 120 years since the historic first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright, an event which marked the start of humanity’s expansion into the skies (and later into ...

Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY), which is developing all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, and GKN Aerospace have today agreed a multi-year agreement for the supply of thermoplastic ...

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...

Key point: A stealth revolution coming soon? Researchers at BAE Systems and The University of Manchester successfully test-flew an experimental unmanned aerial vehicle with no moving control surfaces, ...

A blended wing-body (BWB) aircraft's control surfaces will have to be two to three times larger than those of conventional aircraft to provide the deflective forces needed for manoeuvring, say ...