{"id":110849,"date":"2020-08-04T00:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/darpa-awards-contracts-for-new-x-plane-program-based-on-active-flow-control"},"modified":"2020-08-04T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:08:01","slug":"darpa-awards-contracts-for-new-x-plane-program-based-on-active-flow-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/darpa-awards-contracts-for-new-x-plane-program-based-on-active-flow-control","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Awards Contracts for New X-Plane Program Based on Active Flow Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-awards-contracts-for-new-x-plane-program-based-on-active-flow-control2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA has selected three performers to work on the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control (AFC), an area not fully explored compared to traditional flight controls. The goal is to demonstrate significant efficiency benefits of AFC, as well as improvements in aircraft cost, weight, performance, and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performers are looking at using active flow control very early in the design scope. That\u2019s the differentiating piece that hasn\u2019t been done before,\u201d said Alexander Walan, the program manager for CRANE in DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office. \u201cAFC has been explored at a component level, but not as an integral piece of aircraft design. By altering the design approach, CRANE seeks to maximize the chance of a successful X-plane development while also integrating AFC into the aircraft\u2019s stability and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program is kicking off Phase 0, a long conceptual design phase to give performers time to evaluate flow control options before solidifying their demonstration approaches. The performers selected for Phase 0 are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA has selected three performers to work on the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control (AFC), an area not fully explored compared to traditional flight controls. The goal is to demonstrate significant efficiency benefits of AFC, as well as improvements [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}