{"id":180531,"date":"2024-01-15T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/darpas-mysterious-x-plane-will-revolutionize-flight-by-breaking-this-century-old-aviation-design-paradigm"},"modified":"2024-01-15T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:27:17","slug":"darpas-mysterious-x-plane-will-revolutionize-flight-by-breaking-this-century-old-aviation-design-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/darpas-mysterious-x-plane-will-revolutionize-flight-by-breaking-this-century-old-aviation-design-paradigm","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019s Mysterious X-Plane Will Revolutionize Flight by Breaking This Century-Old Aviation Design Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpas-mysterious-x-plane-will-revolutionize-flight-by-breaking-this-century-old-aviation-design-paradigm3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA is preparing to revolutionize flight as it moves forward with the development of its <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/introducing-the-x-65-darpa-reveals-new-name-and-concept-art-of-its-innovative-x-plane-aircraft\/\">experimental X-plane<\/a>, which the agency says will upend a century of flight technology with an aircraft featuring no moving control surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>The X-65, a technology demonstrator with a 30-foot wingspan weighing slightly more than 7,000 pounds, is expected to be capable of reaching Mach 0.7.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has been working with its partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aurora.aero\/\">Aurora Flight Sciences<\/a>, who were recently given the green light to construct a full-scale experimental aircraft that will demonstrate the company\u2019s novel active flow control (AFC) actuators for its flight control system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA is preparing to revolutionize flight as it moves forward with the development of its experimental X-plane, which the agency says will upend a century of flight technology with an aircraft featuring no moving control surfaces. The X-65, a technology demonstrator with a 30-foot wingspan weighing slightly more than 7,000 pounds, is expected to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180531","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=180531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}