Aerospace designers at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Manassas, Va. are moving forward in flight demonstration for a project to push the bounds of future electric aircraft by eliminating control surfaces like ailerons, rudders, and flaps.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., announced a $41.4 million order to Aurora in December to continue with the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) project.
This phase calls for Aurora Flight Sciences experts to test integrated subsystem components, and then carry out fabrication, assembly, ground test, and flight demonstration of an experimental CRANE electric aircraft.
This order is to exercise option 1 of the CRANE program’s second and third phase, and brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $89.6 million. Aurora won a $42.2 million contract in December 2022 for Crane program’s second and third phases.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., announced a $41.4 million order to Aurora in December to continue with the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) project.
This phase calls for Aurora Flight Sciences experts to test integrated subsystem components, and then carry out fabrication, assembly, ground test, and flight demonstration of an experimental CRANE electric aircraft.
This order is to exercise option 1 of the CRANE program’s second and third phase, and brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $89.6 million. Aurora won a $42.2 million contract in December 2022 for Crane program’s second and third phases.
