The goal is to demonstrate significant efficiency benefits of active flow control, as well as improvements in aircraft cost, weight, performance, and reliability.

Active flow control can supplement or replace conventional moveable control surfaces to improve the performance of an aircraft at various stages of flight, as well as reduce mass and volume compared ...

The active flow control is implemented using a patent-pending Coanda valve designed by Williams and his students, and this was their first chance to show the design's success on an aircraft.

In contrast to conventional flow control systems, the intermittently active flow control requires less air, is more effective and virtually maintenance-free. "The concept of intermittent trailing edge ...

The idea behind active flow control is to use nozzles on the aircraft to blast jets of air that dynamically manipulate the pressure of the boundary air flowing around the plane, allowing the craft ...

Credit: Active flow control could enable novel configurations for aircraft. Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is the first company to receive a contract under a new DARPA program to build ...

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DARPA enters a new phase in creation of an aircraft with no exterior moving parts. @AuroraFlightSci will design a full-scale X-plane that relies solely on changes in air flow for in-flight maneuvers.

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have used "active flow control technology" to deploy munitions from a weapons bay at twice the speed of sound.

The X-plane effort aims to produce an aircraft that uses so-called active flow control, rather than traditional aerodynamic control surfaces such as rudders and flaps, to improve flight performance.

The Boeing subsidiary is designing an aircraft for the US military that can fly without traditional mechanical control surfaces, as part of an attempt to increase aerodynamic performance.