The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA are continuing the assembly of the X-65 CRANE demonstrator, targeting a first flight by 2027. Aurora Flight Sciences' (AFS) latest X-Plane, now designated the X-65, is ...

Back in 2023 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yet another program that's supposed to end with the creation of revolutionary aircraft tech. Called Speed and Runway ...

The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project is a joint DARPA/US Special Operations Command to build a high speed plane capable of take off and flight without the need of a runway.

DARPA will launch the second flight test of an unmanned hypersonic glider Thursday (Aug. 11) to test technologies needed for a new global strike bomber concept designed to fly 20 times the speed of ...

CRANE program enters a decisive phase as the fuselage reaches system integration; first flight of the demonstrator is scheduled for 2027 ...

DARPA sees AI as accelerating advancements in "pure math," potentially benefiting practical applications like fluid dynamics technologies. Credit: Creative Commons The U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...

Lightweight fighter aircraft with no pilots could support conventional military missions while being easier to launch and recover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

We got a glimpse at what a new cross between a helicopter and a jet aircraft might look like after Bell released a new image. It's of a model used in wind tunnel tests of its entry in DARPA's Speed ...