United States to test radical new X-65 aircraft with amazing controls, DARPA’s X-65 aircraft features a revolutionary design that will be used to test a new air control system that could change an entire century’s worth of aircraft design paradigms.
The United States’ Defense Research Advanced Agency Projects (DARPA) on Tuesday said it plans to build and deploy the experimental X-65 with a radical design to test innovative new flight controls.
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Since the Wright brothers flew the first fully controllable aircraft in 1903, virtually every aircraft has used a system of movable, external control surfaces like rudders and flaps for flight control. The X-65 is designed to break this century-old mould by using jets of air from a pressurised source to shape the flow of air over the aircraft’s surface. Removing external moving parts could reduce weight and complexity while improving performance(United States to test radical new X-65 aircraft with amazing controls), according to DARPA.
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But that is not to say (United States to test radical new X-65 aircraft with amazing controls) that X-65 will have no moving parts at all. It will actually have both traditional flaps and rudders along with the active flow control (AFC) actuators that will use pressurised air to shape airflow over the plane. The plane’s performance when it uses conventional control surfaces will act as a baseline. For the following tests, DARPA will selectively lock down moving surfaces to use AFC effectors instead.
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