The SR-91 Aurora, purported replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, is a rumor with scant evidence for its existence. While there was a suggestion from a budget code name and one reported ...

Defense News has reported Aurora Flight Sciences has completed its conceptual design of an experimental vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for the Pentagon and is moving on to the next phase ...

A collaboration between Aurora Flight Sciences and Boeing is working on an innovative high-speed, vertical lift aircraft concept. They have just completed the conceptual design review and target first ...

Aurora” has signified a rumored SR-71 successor: a stealthy, manned, hypersonic reconnaissance jet said to cruise above Mach 5 or Mach 6 and 100,000 feet. -The tale leans on a cryptic 1985 budget line ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has been selected for phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane ...

Summary: Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks, suggested in 1993 that advanced technologies for interstellar travel exist but are confined to secretive black projects. This claim ...

The X-plane, designated X-65, aims to demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, has begun ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by ...

Bell will take its stop/fold tiltrotor X-plane to a preliminary design review under Phase 1B of DARPA’s Sprint project. Credit: Bell Bell has been named as the second performer under Phase 1B of a ...