Boeing, DARPA revolutionizing the future of stealth aircraft...CRANE program’s X-65 prototype aims to break the mold of how aircraft fly with new active flow control technology

Asia Times ^ | JANUARY 10, 2024 | By GABRIEL HONRADA

[Red Badger]

Aviation Ping!.......................

[outofsalt]

The fact that this is Asia Times reporting is a bit unsettling.

[muir_redwoods]

Yes but can they keep the doors on it?

[Red Badger]

It’s been reported all over the world in different publications..............

[outofsalt]

Well then... That’s just warm and fuzzy.

[Samurai_Jack]

This is really interesting actually. They’re using technology to replicate the way a bird soars. If you watch it birds exercise the ultimate variable control surface adjusting their wing tips and twisting the leading edge to compensate for updrafts, wind shifts and turbulence. I had always wondered when the engineers would finally come to try and replicate that technologically.

[minnesota_bound]

Orville and Wilbur Wright used wing warping for the Flyer.

[Bookshelf]

And what is the “Skunk Works” up to these days?

[rdcbn1]

We were working on this concept over 30 years ago so it’s not exactly new.

Works well in combination with vectored thrust.

[epluribus_2]

It’ll be interesting to see how well multiple bursts of air at varying temperature pluming around the vehicle compare with the IR signature of moving control signals.

Scotty: “The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”

[epluribus_2]

I bet PLA students and professors are present at University research on the subject. We are the world...

[Bonemaker]

Hope Boeing can figure out how to keep the body panels on. Good thing they didn’t have DEI during WW 2/B-17 days. If it’s Boeing, I’m not going

[Sirius Lee]

The fact that this is Asia Times reporting is a bit unsettling.

Well, Asia Times is only reporting what the Chicoms are telling them to, and the chicoms are getting the Boeing plans in realtime directly from the pedojoe family, so at least there's a way for Americans to find out what our own government is up to.

[logi_cal869]

“Plugs”

[devane617]

reading comic book?

[Red Badger]

The Wright Brothers Flyer used that ‘technology’, they called it ‘Wing Warping’. But Flaps and ailerons became the norm................

[Red Badger]

The Wright Brothers Flyer used that ‘technology’, they called it ‘Wing Warping’. But Flaps and ailerons became the norm................

[Red Badger]

[I-ambush]

We live in an age of wonders! Will be these aircraft be powered by batteries or by the new jet fuel derived from manure.