Part of the NASA technology demonstrators, X-31 was designed to test thrust vectoring technology by using a delta wing, canards, and vectored thrust from the engine. Designed and built by Rockwell and ...

NASA's F/A-18 (left) and X-31 are among the airplanes used to gather data for thrust-vectoring. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Remember the scene in the movie Top Gun when Navy pilot Pete ...

Flying a thrust-vectoring rocket can be a challenge, and even more so if you stack multiple stages and a minimalist flight computer on top of it all. But [Joe Barnard] is not one to shy away from ...

I got to see the F-22 Raptor show off its insane thrust vectoring capabilities—and it was nothing short of jaw-dropping. From the falling leaf maneuver to J-turns and tail slides, this aircraft ...

Mayman Aerospace has completed flight testing of its Razor P100 high-speed autonomous vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) ...

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We’ll just go with “monocopter” for now and sort out the details later for this ducted-fan, thrust-vectored UAV. Whatever we choose to call it — builder [tesla500] dubbed it the ...

In 1972, he began marketing his design: an eight-place vertical/short-takeoff-and-landing jet with vectored thrust. His DP-2 could be used by businessmen, or by the military speedily inserting ...

During the test, the nozzle of this Rocket Motor was vectored to establish thrust vectoring performance. The Rocket motor was fully instrumented, and live test data was displayed and recorded at ...