Revolutionary Aircraft!? X-65 DOES Something VERY AMAZING 

This is DARPA territory. A system using jet puffs to control the aircraft instead of conventional deflecting control surfaces is to maintain a minimal radar cross section of the airframe. With jet puff controls a clean frame profile is maintained at all times. It has nothing to do with passenger comfort in turbulence. That's another topic entirely.

The real advantage is the ability to fit the pressurized air lines for control into really thin low drag wings which struggle to fit hydraulics or servos inside them

this plane seems to be designated to improve stealth because when parts are moving on a stealth plane, it changes the plane stealth, the plane become slighty more visible (because its shape change) but with a plane without any shape change, the plane always stay stealth as its designed

Ionic air molecule deflection to streamline flight surfaces with plasma seems futuristic, but with advancements in metamaterial science and power generation capabilities, perhaps sometime soon.

Connect this to a jet engine (air pump) and you've got one hell of a fighter, the added maneuverability this adds is remarkable! 😲

This technology could be used to explain a lot of the science-fiction movies fictitious spacecraft that can fly through an planet atmosphere without aerodynamic control surfaces.

I think ionization is going to require such immense energy that it may never be used except in ultra-exotic designs, or perhaps as an efficiency enhancer at much-scaled-back proportions I love the idea of using bypass air though; it's already there, it's a fact of flying airplanes powered by jet engines at high speeds, so it doesn't require extra power per sé. I think they will definitely be deployed at scale even as an efficiency enhancer, but I do wonder if they could be used standalone, which if they work would enable massive weight savings as control surfaces are made immobile

Interesting video, enjoyed the explanation and found the plasma idea for air stabilization something that may be pursued when technologies are more advanced.

It would make "dead-Stick" landings very interesting.

DARPA suggested that the nasa X-37B could be dormant dual use offensive unit dropping from space then fly around 36hrs with a warhead inside.

Is it me, or does this thing look like Thunderbird 2? I mean, kinda? Some designer flashes back to when he was 8 years old and thinks "Design? I'll show 'em a design!"

Great for drones, small craft, good weight savings because les hydraulics and associated equip, fly by wire systems and good computing have made this possible

I have a very basic pen and paper design for a flying wing with four slat outlets on the wing two on the upper surface two on lower, upper and lower offset (upper outlets outboard, lower inboard or some other combination). Two electric motors one for each set of outlets. There is an interior geometry that directs the flow from motors to slats and all thrust is through the slats. Thrust can of course be varied by energy supplied to motors but there are also louvres on each slat outlet. By changing output to each and a lot of experimenting maybe pitch, yaw and roll control could be achieved. Maybe four motors is simpler design, one per slat, no louvres. The complex geometry of the wing and interior flow chambers is best manufactured by 3D printing the forms.

I'm confused about the doubt here - you've never heard of NOTAR helicopters? They use the Magnus effect from a slot under one side of the tail boom to produce most of the countertorque, with an adjustable nozzle for control. This idea just bumps control to valves in the pressurized air system, where a NOTAR system has a compression turbine attached to the rotor transmission, making it more reliable than a standard tail rotor but eliminates the option of rapid source modulation. I am still curious about the reliability of the compressor that provides air to the control jets, or the alternative tech they're pursuing.

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I like the idea - but how they are going to handle ice forming on the wings ? How will it perform in atmospheres that have high levels of humidity - dust - rain - sleet - snow etc ?

I saw the thumbnail and thought ‘oh, Thunderbird 2’

Could jet exhaust be blown overtop of wings to increase lift?

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As a "loyal wingman".... I can imagine these to be an incredibly scary opponent.

I'm more interested as to why your cologne bottle is next to your 3D printer... and what are those things to your right? Are those books? I've heard about them being physical copies last century, but haven't seen one irl...

I think he needs 2 be given one tenth of a second to make tea.

THIS IS GREAT FOR SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great, and if you lose engine power? I hope there’s back up mechanical or hydraulic control surfaces, if it’s a manned vehicle anyway.

That boeing doing a steep climb is fucking mind blowing tbh.

where does X-65 get compressed air? APU?

No moving parts? what about air valves and theire actuators?

I think KratosDefense is coming out with some nifty stuff

I hunch that a double wing will always be bad aerodynamics but in principle the wings could be mounted on suspension and move independently of the fuselage. Maybe as little as 10cm travel might smooth over a lot of felt turbulence. Very fast control surfaces might also work. The entire wing could also be a control surface that pivots. For smaller planes that's actually not a significant material strength feat. It's surprising how small the wing spar mount on a small plane often is so to make it roll would not take much. You might even imagine a passive suspension style roll of the wing. Might even be quite easy to make... hmm interesting

I can see this type of control system working, but i don't see a way to get away from conventional controls. Because at low speeds, like take off speeds you would still need conventional controls. At least until the plane gets to higher speeds.

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BAE had this flying decades ago. Not that "new". 2 reasons for the tech. 1) potentially less to service for commercial aircraft. 2) flight surfaces are not so stealthy. This fixes that.

There is an interesting design of aircraft, but they rarely talk about it, because this thing is secret. The topic of pulsed plasma thrusters has been developed since the early 60s (see PPT - Pulsed plasma thruster) - they are usually designed for spacecraft. But we will talk about a little-known design - these are plasma propulsion panels for aircraft, where the same Pulsed plasma thruster, but reduced to the size of a pencil and stacked in the form of cells in the panel. The design resembles a conventional plasma TV screen, where there are also discharge cells that activate the glow of pixels on the screen. And plasma propulsion panels have long discharge cells, the arrester has a railgun architecture (just rail contacts or coaxial), and the ionized discharge air is accelerated there by the Lorentz force to enormous speeds - a kind of ramjet engine is obtained. Just imagine! - tens of thousands of small ramjet engines assembled in a panel and firing plasma synchronously with a huge frequency (hundreds of kilohertz). Thus, plasma propulsion panels create lift by pulsed emission of plasma jets from railgun cells. There are tens of thousands of cells in the panel, they shoot at a frequency of hundreds of kilohertz, a huge pulse is obtained, and the plasma swirls the air into toroidal rings - the aircraft is held on this air cushion. Horizontal acceleration is created by the same plasma panels on the sides of the device (they glow, from the side they look like "portholes"). Such devices like "triangle" or "disk" have been observed for a long time, they are mistaken for alien ones - but these are terrestrial devices. They are classified and used for espionage and secret actions. Pulsed electromagnetic technology generates microwave radiation, therefore it is harmful to health. They rarely fly - only military missions. Therefore, they are not suitable for a citizen. This maintained the secrecy. Now they are already declassifying - many people know about this secret technique. When declassified, they will be used for cargo airships. But there is a danger that they are now going to be adapted to deliver small nuclear charges to decision-making centers - such means of delivery are not specified anywhere, are not conventional. This lowers the threshold for starting a war. It would be necessary to declassify them as soon as possible. That's why I'm writing about it. However, I have written before - starting with the book "The Elimination of UFOs" and many articles. There are also videos on my RU-vid channel - "Declassified UFO" and "UFO Anatomy".

when a stealth aircraft has to use elevators it increases the radar cross section. if it has thrust vectoring its preferred over using elevators as much as possible. by removing the elevators and cause air turbulence over the wings you can dump the lift of the wing and control the roll pitch and yaw. i never would have thought of this but then again i dont design aircraft at all :(

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Pronunciation: Slot like pot - Slat like pat

Makes sense, of course a morphing wing could work better, like birds do - still, this is a worthy project.

there will be an update in the future where a "shutter" will be deployed enabling the aircraft carry more, then after operations it will retract for maneuverability. pretty simple solution tbh not bad, -apathetically- weeeew ngad

There's literally nothing new about this, it's called a reaction control system and it's been used in aeospace (particularly the space part) for ages.

Old technology. The Blackburn Buccaneer nuclear b.omber had similar wing blowers, for landing control. R

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It could also perform in space.

We wont know till it is tested. So, carry on.

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It continues to fascinate me that none of these designs could fly without computers. That's also quite a vulnerability.

I would think the changes to reliability would be negligible. You have fewer moving parts exposed to the external environment, but you also are relying on a supply of compressed air. In theory the internal air ducts and valves could clog/jam/fail as well.

What about an aircraft that simply changes its internal centre of mass ??? to control its direction?

Aren't planes getting heavier because of these developments? I'd consider applying new ideas and materials to older ways of controlling aircraft. We might be surprised at the effectiveness.

Birds use coordinated piloerector muscles and the dense cerebellar brain structure that includes learning and predictive skill to modify feather angles in an entraining fashion. AI must function using memory, learning, prediction to be useful to any pilot, whose own sensory systems are not directly linked, forever slower than a bird's response. Remote piloting is more efficient than any onboard dual control design. There will be no "singularity" as our brains are adapted to other actions and contingencies. The sensorimotor "skills" of a craft like this, are dependent upon the exteroceptive sensors, the future for engineers of such a semiautonomous craft.

Yikes a demonstrator weighing that much! Where is all that weight coming from? It's supposed to be an aircraft right?

Does it kill people, or spy on them? Is that the special thing?

Perhaps a 'laser-spike' could be employed to ionise the air in front of the craft, and electromagnetic fields direct this ionised airstream , perhaps even keeping the air away from the fuselage in order to reduce drag, while keeping more normal airflow over the lifting surfaces.

Why would you link this aircraft's unconventional control system with reduction of turbulence effects? The two would appear to be completely unconnected. In fact you hint at the fact that this system might lack control authority, which would make it less suitable for turbulence control than conventional moving surfaces.

Yeah, but --- how is the craft controlled when there is an engine failure? Woody

This sounds dangerous, especially if there's loss of power, many aircraft depend on gliding, and controls...

The RAVEN X1 is only 20 feet wide, and thar is nothing on this planet that can outdo it

It's not like you are making a complex system simple, you are just replacing moving parts with even more moving parts, but on the inside and add more complexity, while reducing space normally used for fuel storage. If this you be simplified significantly there might be a chance, but I am sceptical.

All I see with this concept is how unreliable it will be! In order to make it work you would have to use an ultra clean pressurized gas of some kind to minimize the risk of jets getting clogged. You could minimize the clogging risk by using larger diameter tubing and jets but to make it work would require a higher pressure. Higher pressures put greater stress on the system and creates many more potential points of failure. You could also minimize the risk of catastrophic failure by having reduntant loops of pressurized gas which adds weight and complexity. Another point of complexity would have to exist in the maintenance schedule on the loops to ensure the same parts on different loops never have the same number of hours of usage at the same time. All of these measures add to the overall cost of implementing this type of control system. If cost is not a concern it could be achievable but it you think it will save on operating costs I believe you would be mistaken.

its a dead end. . the benefit is not having the extra drag caused by using control flaps but the amount of drag that causes when taking in the big picture is negligable and frankly this is not nor ever has been a big issue or major problem in aviation and there are much more pressing issues to be solved in aviation than this. poor usage of resources

Funny how humans looking for ideal design, when everything is more simple - just Ryse your head and look at your sun in the skies, cuz that's ideal design for spaceship. Gladly not one of u anymore. 😅

подарите разработчикам учебник теоретической механики немецких авторов . Более глупой компоновки я не встречал за 50 лет . Какой там вери амазинг ? Фуфло непрофессиональных дилетантов . Пинков под зад .

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