In 1994, the X-31 demonstrator was fitted with what German program managers called a “poor man’s thrust vectoring nozzle”—three paddle-like vanes that pushed into the exhaust stream—and ...

The vanes deflect the airstream and provide the thrust vectoring that gives this little machine its control. Coming to the correct control method was not easy, though. Thanks mainly to the strong ...

Indeed, it's designing and testing systems using ventral flaps, external flaps, "rotating" thrust vectoring, cascade vanes and buckets to do the job. Since the company plans to work with other ...

These glove vanes were designed to create lift ahead ... that may have been further bolstered by the inclusion of thrust vectoring nozzles taking their cues from the aircraft’s new flight ...

Four movable vanes provide thrust vectoring capability. To supplement this control a quadcopter was gutted, and its motors rearranged in the nose of the craft to create a secondary set of ...

As an experimental Su-27 variant, the Su-27LL-PS tested advanced 2D thrust vectoring for enhanced maneuverability, providing critical insights into supermaneuverable flight dynamics, material ...

The company has been developing its 360-degree thrust vectoring technology for several years and aims to showcase the seventh ...

China's J-10 fighter is now equipped with thrust vectoring controls that allow the jet to perform seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers. This long-rumored upgrade to a well-known jet fighter made ...

The pilot who first flew the J-20 believes that China's most advanced stealth fighter jet will be upgraded with 2D thrust vectoring nozzles for its engines, according to a recent news report.

China for the first time exhibited a turbofan engine with a 2D thrust vectoring control nozzle at the ongoing Airshow China 2022 held in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, with experts ...