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DARPA's X-Plane Designed To Maneuver With Bursts Of Air Gets New Wings Attached
DARPA's X-Plane Designed To Maneuver With Bursts Of Air Gets New Wings Attached
Authored by Chris Young via Interesting Engineering,
Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an experimental drone developed under DARPA's Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program.
Technicians mounting the wings onto the X-65 experimental drone.Aurora Flight Sciences / X
The installation brings DARPA and Aurora a step closer to flying the unconventional uncrewed aircraft, which was designed to test flight control using only bursts of pressurized air instead of conventional moving...
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