When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical element to their success laid in the refinement of the flight controls they used—wing warping—to guide the craft through the air.
DARPA Announces Active Flow Control “Proposers Day”
Key Takeaways:
- DARPA has launched the CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effecters) program to develop revolutionary aircraft that use Active Flow Control (AFC) as a primary design element, aiming to eliminate traditional moving control surfaces.
- The CRANE program seeks to design, build, and flight-test a novel aircraft optimized for AFC to demonstrate new trade spaces for future designs and improve performance across various flight aspects.
- The feasibility of flight control without traditional surfaces is already gaining traction, as evidenced by BAE Systems' successful flight of a UAV utilizing flow control.
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