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Experimental Aircraft | Advanced Manufacturing | Autonomy | Flight Testing United States of America
Aurora Flight Sciences is a leading developer of cutting-edge aircraft and aerospace technologies. For over 35 years, we’ve created innovative solutions that span the state of the art in aircraft design, autonomy, propulsion, and composite manufacturing.
Our prototyping and R&D capabilities solve problems for customers in the global defense, government, and commercial sectors. We manufacture mission-ready aircraft components; and we design, build, and fly experimental aircraft that demonstrate cutting-edge technologies.
Experimental and Prototype Aircraft
Cutting-edge design, manufacture and flight testing for the next generation of aviation
Designing, building, and flying advanced aircraft is at the heart of Aurora Flight Sciences. We bring together a unique combination of expertise across engineering, rapid prototyping, manufacturing, and flight operations, taking cutting-edge manned and unmanned aircraft designs from initial ideas through to flight.
Aurora has a long and proven history of creating experimental and prototype aircraft for a wide range of aerospace and defense clients, including NASA and DARPA.
We can offer:
Clean-sheet design, build, and fly programs for new aircraft concepts
Design, integration and test services for incorporating new technologies into an existing aircraft.
Build-to-print of components or complete airframes for customer-designed air or space craft
We’ve successfully delivered cutting-edge programs that demonstrate novel aircraft configurations, electric propulsion, vertical lift, advanced flight controls, autonomous capabilities, and robotic manufacturing.
Expert Aerosystem Design, Prototyping, and Production
Aurora provides consistent and reliable components, sub-assemblies, and airframes using the latest technologies in composite materials and robotic manufacturing in AS9100 third party certified facilities.
We specialize in complex design, build-to-print, rapid prototyping, and production of air vehicles, components, and sub-assemblies. We are experts in aerospace-grade composite materials used in air vehicle skins, nacelles, doors, wings, fuselages, and more.
In addition, we work with our customers to:
Develop advanced materials and manufacturing process technologies
Leverage automation to scale technologies and transition them into production
Deliver quality complex composite structures and assemblies on time
Aurora’s advanced capabilities in manufacturing automation and robotics reduce production costs while ensuring quality, performance, and safety.
Through several key technologies, Aurora can meet customer requirements for both rapid prototype and production-scale manufacturing of aerospace-grade components and sub-assemblies.
Integration and flight testing of innovative technologies
Aurora’s dedicated flight operations team tests novel air vehicles, payload sensors, autonomous behaviors, and other technologies to ensure success under challenging real-world conditions. With a variety of capabilities and extensive operations expertise, we can efficiently provide the data you need to move your program forward.
Our capabilities include:
System integration engineering for autonomy, propulsion, and payloads
Aurora Flight Sciences contributed composite structures, airframe components, and flight software development support for the U.S. Navy's MQ-25A Stingray ahead of its first flight
Aurora Flight Sciences applies simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight evaluation to support the development, validation, and risk reduction of advanced autonomous vertical takeoff and landing aircraft systems
Aurora Flight Sciences supported the first flight of Wisk Aero’s Generation 6 autonomous, all-electric passenger aircraft, providing engineering expertise across a range of technical disciplines
Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrates its AI-enabled FALCON control system under DARPA’s LINC program, achieving up to 94% safe-zone performance and 61% faster recovery during simulated maritime hazards
Aurora Flight Sciences outlines how decades of autonomy research, flight testing, and simulation are combined to develop practical autonomous flight systems for next-generation aircraft operating in shared airspace
Aurora Flight Sciences has enhanced its Centaur Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator to advance autonomous flight system testing, improving efficiency and reliability before aircraft reach flight trials
Aurora Flight Sciences is building FARSIGHT, an adaptive human-machine interface that uses cognitive sensing and autonomous algorithms to tailor information delivery and to support pilots in managing multiple drones
Aurora Flight Sciences and Uvision USA sign MoU to integrate loitering munitions with Aurora autonomy, fast-tracking fieldable launched effects for the U.S. Army
Mississippi State’s Raspet Lab is testing Aurora Flight Sciences SKIRON-X to advance Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, enhancing first responder efficiency and safety in emergency missions
Aurora Flight Sciences uses its ATLAS infrastructure to streamline autonomy development through layered simulation, hardware integration, and high-frequency flight testing on UAS platforms
Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, is participating in NASA’s University Leadership Initiative, contributing tools, expertise, and testing capabilities to university-led aerospace research projects
Explore how Aurora Flight Science's advanced energy lab is enhancing battery efficiency, extending flight endurance, and revolutionizing fuel cell technology
Aurora Flight Sciences and SkyGrid are set to enhance Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) by collaborating on systems for integrating UAVs into the national airspace
Aurora Flight Sciences is designing a vertical lift X-plane that utilizes fan-in-wing technology, developing an unmanned demonstrator to achieve high-speed, runway-independent mobility in contested environments
Aurora Flight Sciences' fuel-cell-powered SKIRON-XLE has completed a 7-hour flight test, demonstrating its long-endurance capabilities for BVLOS operations
The Centaur optionally piloted aircraft (OPA) from Aurora Flight Sciences completed flight tests in the National Airspace System (NAS), equipped with an EO/IR camera, maritime surveillance radar, and Automatic Identification System payloads
The low-drag, fan-in-wing X-plane from Aurora Flight Sciences will begin a preliminary design review, integrating a blended wing body platform and combining VTOL with impressive speed
The vehicle will demonstrate heavy-air-lift capabilities from the sea and operate efficiently in ground effect at high sea states, using low-cost manufacturing and unique design features
Aurora Flight Sciences has released an article discussing its legacy of innovation, including development of an autonomous stratospheric research aircraft,...
Aurora Flight Sciences is a leading developer of cutting-edge aircraft and aerospace technologies. For over 35 years, we’ve created innovative solutions that span the state of the art in aircraft design, autonomy, propulsion, and composite manufacturing. Our prototyping and R&D capabilities solve problems for customers in the global defense, government, and commercial sectors. We manufacture mission-ready aircraft components; and we design, build, and fly experimental aircraft that demonstrate cutting-edge technologies.
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