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https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/darpa-aurora-flight-sciences-started-building-radical-prototype-plane/

DARPA this week announced that Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun building an aircraft that can maneuver without the need for traditional flight control surfaces.

Through the CRANE initiative, DARPA and Aurora are trying to break the mold of a feature foundational to aviation’s century-plus existence. Whereas aircraft have been operated with flight control surfaces — e.g. flaps and rudders — the CRANE drone is being designed to instead leverage pressurized air using active flow control (AFC) actuators to shape an aircraft’s flight.

The unmanned vehicle itself could fly as soon as summer 2025.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/372951/china-has-launched-its-secretive-space-plane-on-another-mystery-mission

China's efforts to develop reusable spaceflight technologies, such as the space plane known as CSSHQ, has long remained something of an enigma. It is likely to perform a similar role to the X-37b - a secretive space plane originally developed by NASA before being handed over to the US Department of Defense which has itself conducted numerous secretive missions into space lasting up to several years at a time.

Do you know what that is? My mom and all the neighbors wives become beasts when the ships set sail for the pacific. Dad was gone 9 months.