enable to mix and match to meet mission requirements." Aurora relied on 3D printing to verify design schemes, scaling those designs for the demonstrator. "A lot of aircraft simply fly fast or can fly like helicopters but to bring them together so aircraft can do both, with the intent of advancing technology, to increase the industrial base, to exploit new design tools and materials, to exploit new configurations. "It became apparent that rather than focusing on a particular mission set there was a great advantage to pushing technology to encourage development of new design spaces," said Ashish Bagai, the program manager at DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office supporting the XV-23A program. With only five minute endurance, the demonstrator was able to validate a number of key technologies for the full-scale aircraft, including the tilt wing/tilt canard configuration, aerodynamics, avionics architecture, flight control algorithms and software. A 20 percent subscale vehicle demonstrator of the XV-24A LightningStrike Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane completed its planned flight test program in early March at Webster Outlying Field in Southern Maryland. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - Aurora Flight Sciences, in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is one step closer to developing an unmanned aircraft with the speed of an airplane and the agility of a helicopter.
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