Could Active Flow Control Reshape Aircraft Of The Future?

Credit: Lockheed Martin, TU Delft
All X, no plane is how program manager Alexander Walan characterizes DARPA’s recent efforts to build and fly experimental aircraft. After a spate of projects being terminated before reaching flight, he hopes to reverse that trend with his program to fly a subsonic X-plane designed around active flow...

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