DARPA X-plane Steered by Air Bursts to Make First Flight in 2027 Written 21 November 2025
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Artist’s rendering of the Aurora X-65 CRANE. | Credit: DARPA; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Defense News reports, “An experimental DARPA plane that would steer using bursts of air is expected to have its first flight in late 2027, more than two years later than originally planned, after the program was paused and restructured. The unmanned X-65, being built by Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is designed to test a concept called ‘active flow control’ to steer an aircraft.”
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