With the increasing reliance on software in modern automobiles, traditional diagnostic tools that only read and clear fault codes are no longer enough. Today’s technicians and experienced car owners ...

Active aero and suspension, traction control, torque vectoring—all ways computers have made cars faster. They have yet to make the most of where rubber meets the road though, as Lamborghini has been ...

It'll fly instead using Active Flow Control (AFC), using a series of nozzle arrays along the wings connected to a pressurized air system, capable of blowing controlled bursts of air that can directly ...

DARPA wants to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft that does not use external mechanical flight controls. Aurora plans to fly an X-Plane in 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

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 hurdle ...

Pressurized-air active flow-control effectors are embedded in the upper surfaces of all the X-plane’s wing panels. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a ...