Experimental jet aircraft X-65, which removes 'moving blades' from airplanes, is scheduled to make its first flight in the summer of 2025
The jet aircraft ' X-65 ' uses pressurized jets called 'active flow control (AFC)' to control the aircraft, rather than 'moving wings' that include rudders, elevators, flaps, ailerons, etc. We have learned that the first flight is scheduled for summer 2020.
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The X-65 is an experimental jet aircraft of the 'CRANE' project, which is being worked on by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Boeing's subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences.
The movement of an aircraft is normally controlled by a 'moving blade' that is a combination of primary control surfaces (control surfaces) such as rudders and elevators, and secondary control surfaces such as flaps and spoilers.
flight control equipment
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However, the X-65 uses AFC actuators rather than rotor wings to control the aircraft.
However, since this is only a technology demonstration aircraft, in addition to the AFC actuator, the conventional flaps and rudder remain.
Production of the aircraft by Aurora Flight Sciences is already underway, with rollout scheduled for early 2025. The first flight is scheduled for summer 2025.
'I came to DARPA in 1999 and worked on a program called Micro Adaptive Flow Control (MAFC),' said Dr. Richard Urezine, CRANE's project manager. I was instrumental in the pioneering work that eventually led to CRANE, but I quit in 2003.It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come back and see the initial research come to fruition into a real aircraft. 'Aerospace engineers live to see their efforts take flight,' he says, expressing his joy in working on the project.
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