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ProgramsAurora Flight Sciences CRANE X-Plane

Aircraft program

Aurora Flight Sciences CRANE X-Plane

In production

Technology demonstrator for (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) X-Plane Demonstration Project with aim of incorporating Active Flow Control (AFC) as primary design feature and achieve speeds of up to Mach 0.7, also known as DARPA CRANE. In development.

Lift type
Fixed wing
Construction
Factory-built
Control
Engine type
Application
Experimental

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Type variants

VariantLaunch / first flightProduction endNotes
Aurora Flight Sciences CRANE X-Plane2019 / Clean-sheet demonstrator aircraft, officially designated X-65.

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Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing CompanyNews

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