DARPA Seeks Proposals For Planned X-Plane Written 16 August 2019
16 August 2019
Aviation Week reported that DARPA has formally begun “a program to build and fly an X-plane designed around active flow control (AFC), potentially eliminating the need for moving control surfaces.” On August 12, “a broad agency announcement (BAA) was released...for the first two of four planned phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors” (CRANE) program. In lieu of existing aircraft modifications, “designing from the ground up around AFC...is expected to yield performance and operational benefits.” (Image: NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology, or QueSST, X-plane concept | NASA)
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Aviation Week reported that DARPA has formally begun “a program to build and fly an X-plane designed around active flow control (AFC), potentially eliminating the need for moving control surfaces.” On August 12, “a broad agency announcement (BAA) was released...for the first two of four planned phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors” (CRANE) program. In lieu of existing aircraft modifications, “designing from the ground up around AFC...is expected to yield performance and operational benefits.” (Image: NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology, or QueSST, X-plane concept | NASA)
Full Story (Aviation Week)