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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!"

LOVE IT❣️

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.

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 ?

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

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

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