Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA hope to see the X-65 drone fly next year after suffering delays and cost growth.

Aurora Flight Sciences just announced that the triangular wings of the X-65 have arrived at its Virginia assembly facility, ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an ...

The X-65 Active Flow Control demonstrator continues to make progress, with the fuselage now mated with its wing as the first ...

One doesn't have to be an aviator to understand how an aircraft works. In simplistic terms, engines push it through the air, the wings provide lift, and various control surfaces like stabilizers, ...

DARPA's CRANE program aims to revolutionize aircraft design by developing planes without traditional external control surfaces like flaps or rudders. Aurora Flight Sciences is building the X-65 ...

A team of engineers has built and tested a new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

If you've ever studied older military aircraft like the North American F-86 Sabre jet, you may have noticed that many of them had flat metal plates, known as wing fences, on the wings. While these ...