Aurora Flight Sciences has been developing its LightningStrike XV-24A vertical take-off and landing craft, an autonomous military aircraft that is being funded by DARPA and the USAF.

The X-plane demonstrator builds on Bell’s experience with tiltrotor aircraft, but with a new stop/fold rotor feature that ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, one of two teams vying to design and build a military seaplane with heavy-air-lift capability, has reconfigured the tail section of its Liberty Lifter design.

Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...

Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Notches More DARPA Funding for Its X-Plane Contender The DARPA program is looking for a candidate that can fly at speeds up to 450 knots, hover ‘in a stable manner ...

(Aurora Flight Sciences Photo) Boeing says it has struck a deal to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a leader in the field of autonomous flight, to beef up its own capabilities on that frontier.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ Design. Aurora’s concept would employ “a robust and adaptive control system designed to meet the challenge of operations to and from the sea surface and at low ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – An aerosystems manufacturing company will expand in Columbus, Mississippi. Aurora Flight Sciences will invest $43,794,998 into the project, as well as create 63 new jobs.

Aurora Flight Sciences, which is developing a Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Home; ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, a pioneer in experimental flying vehicles that became a Boeing subsidiary last year, says its solar-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance Odysseus drone will take on its ...

AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES (Boeing) completed conceptual design review for vertical lift X-plane to be developed under DARPA's SPRINT program; concept is low-drag, fan-in-wing demonstrator that ...