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 ...

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 ...

This US-German joint venture aimed to enhance future military aircraft with advanced thrust vectoring and electronic flight controls. The X-31’s innovations influenced modern fighter jets like ...

The X-31 demonstrator flew on April 6, using its vectored thrust capabilities for the first time since the 1995 Paris Air Show, the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., announced April 11.

First, there's thrust-vectoring. Instead of relying on airflow ... NASA's footage of the move being pulled in the experimental X-31 plane, so here's a diagram: The Kulbit (from the Russian ...

As an experimental Su-27 variant, the Su-27LL-PS tested advanced 2D thrust vectoring for enhanced ... Driven by Western advancements like the U.S.’s X-31 experimental aircraft, and ...

Gerard Julien//Getty Images The X-31 technology demonstrator. Note thrust vectoring paddles on the tail mounted behind the engine exhaust. Thrust vectoring control (TVC) turns this idea on its head.

The shape of a rotating electric solar wind sail under the centrifugal force and solar wind dynamic pressure is modeled to address the sail attitude maintenance and thrust vectoring. The sail rig ...