Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is advancing to Phase II of a military experiment aimed at developing novel methods of aircraft flight control. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program is a project of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The announcement follows the awarding to Aurora of a $42 million CRANE development contract in December. AFC refers to aircraft designs that eliminate the use of traditional moving control surfaces to maneuver (rudders/flaps) and use actuators and effectors to modify surface airflow by directly adding energy or momentum. (Flight Global 01/18/23) Aurora advances to second phase of DARPA ‘active flow’ flight-control experiment | News | Flight Global
Aurora is HQ'd out of Virginia, but has over 120,000 sf of space and technologies - such as automated fiber placement - at an advanced manufacturing facility at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport in Columbus, Miss.
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