{"id":179888,"date":"2024-01-05T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/darpas-wild-x-65-crane-aircraft-aims-for-1st-flight-in-summer-2025"},"modified":"2024-01-05T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:24:57","slug":"darpas-wild-x-65-crane-aircraft-aims-for-1st-flight-in-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/darpas-wild-x-65-crane-aircraft-aims-for-1st-flight-in-summer-2025","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019s wild X-65 CRANE aircraft aims for 1st flight in summer 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpas-wild-x-65-crane-aircraft-aims-for-1st-flight-in-summer-20252.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences have begun building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft to demonstrate a new method of flight control that uses no external moving parts.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/darpa-crane-x-plane-active-flow-control\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/darpa-crane-x-plane-active-flow-control\">The X-65 is an experimental jet<\/a> being developed by the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program overseen by DARPA, (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Pentagon\u2019s research and development agency. Since the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16596-wright-flyer-first-airplane.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16596-wright-flyer-first-airplane.html\">first aircraft<\/a> were invented, they have been controlled by moving surfaces such as rudders, flaps, elevators and ailerons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences have begun building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft to demonstrate a new method of flight control that uses no external moving parts. The X-65 is an experimental jet being developed by the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program overseen by DARPA, (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179888","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}