Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have used "active flow control technology" to deploy munitions from a weapons bay at twice the speed of sound.

Research from Nature Portfolio Recent studies have demonstrated innovative approaches for integrating plasma actuator technology into active flow control systems. Experimental work has shown that ...

A NATO study of active flow control (AFC) for tailless unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV) has concluded the technology is “feasible and reasonable” for flight control, at least for the ...

Two decades after demonstrating the promise of active flow control, DARPA has returned to the topic with the goal of flying an X-plane that can finally take the technology over the transition ...

Hybrid Laminar Flow Technology (HLFC), a combination of active flow control and specific laminar profiles, is a promising possibility to reduce the drag of aircraft wings and empennage. While the ...

The active flow control is implemented using a patent-pending Coanda valve designed by Williams and his students, and this was their first chance to show the design's success on an aircraft.

NASA and Boeing said they recently completed tests of technology they call Active Flow Control, which places small, computer controlled devices known as actuators on the surface of a wing that ...

The combined wind tunnel and flight tests will represent the first full-scale flight demonstration of this active flow control technology, Whalen said.

Boeing and the US Air Force have demonstrated that active flow control can enable safe munitions release from a weapons bay at high supersonic speed, paving ...

Plasma flow control technology based on DBD has been widely demonstrated to be a novel active flow control method for boundary layer control, lift augmentation and separation control.

The BAE Systems MAGMA UAV demonstrated maneuvering flight through the use of flow control earlier this year in Wales. BAE Systems When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical ...