Boeing 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 ...

NASA's X-29 tested forward-swept wings and digital fly-by-wire control, advancing unstable aircraft design and high-angle flight research.

Experimental aircraft developer Aurora Flight Sciences has completed fabrication of the fuselage for a new jet meant to operate without traditional mechanical control surfaces. Known as the X-65, the ...

Joby Aviation, Inc., 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 flight ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing a secretive new X-plane for the US military, designated the X-65. Aurora is under contract to develop the experimental jet aircraft for ...

DARPA and Aurora, subsidiary of Boeing, are making a breakthrough X-plane without regular flights controls. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program aims to design, ...