In this explanation video you'll learn how an aircraft is controlled with the help of great graphics, you'll understand the ...

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This rare video shows how the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit’s control surfaces move during checks carried out before taxi. In March last year, three U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirits, belonging to the 509th ...

DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a US defence contract to develop an experimental aircraft that can fly without traditional control surfaces like rudders, flaps and ailerons. The US ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the first awardee in a potential X-plane project designed to explore the use of active ...

DARPA's CRANE program is developing a revolutionary X-65 demonstrator aircraft that eliminates traditional external control surfaces (like flaps and rudders) in favor of Active Flow Control (AFC).

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, ...