Doors covering the embedded lift fans are open in the vertical flight phase. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology research arm is ending a project to develop a heavy-lift amphibian aircraft. After three years or research and development, the US Defense Advanced Research ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

Bell will take its stop/fold tiltrotor X-plane to a preliminary design review under Phase 1B of DARPA’s Sprint project. Credit: Bell Bell has been named as the second performer under Phase 1B of a ...

An artist's rendering of Aurora Flight Sciences' CRANE design. The first flight is scheduled in 2025. (DARPA) The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Aurora Flight Sciences ...

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 ...