And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's showing their thrust vectoring capability. They can do some startling maneuvers by using the engine thrust to steer the plane. I've wondered at times why we haven't tried to develop the same technology.
The first deployed jet to use it, although in a different way, was the Harrier. It could do some pretty wild maneuvers in the air by rotating the engine nozzles to change forward speed etc.
tactically useless if it slows you down. violates the KISS principal of engineering. what happens when one fails up and the other fails down? did you say screw your way thru the sky? all kidding aside, wonder what the mean time between failure is for all those bits of stuff.
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ReplyDeleteIt's showing their thrust vectoring capability. They can do some startling maneuvers by using the engine thrust to steer the plane.
ReplyDeleteI've wondered at times why we haven't tried to develop the same technology.
F22 has it
ReplyDeleteThe first deployed jet to use it, although in a different way, was the Harrier. It could do some pretty wild maneuvers in the air by rotating the engine nozzles to change forward speed etc.
ReplyDeletetactically useless if it slows you down. violates the KISS principal of engineering. what happens when one fails up and the other fails down? did you say screw your way thru the sky?
ReplyDeleteall kidding aside, wonder what the mean time between failure is for all those bits of stuff.