From: Rob Wells <wll@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada Success Story II
Date: 1997/03/06
Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <331F658D.33AF@eurocontrol.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Mar5183223@alexandria
Jon S Anthony wrote:
>
> In article <97030510245774@psavax.pwfl.com> "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM> writes:
>
> > never designed with the intent of utilizing the nozzle. Ultimately
> > - if the nozzles do what you'd like - you'd be able to remove all
> > the control surfaces off the back of the airplane.
>
> Speaking as an acro pilot, this sounds mighty scary! Would this sort
> of thing really offer the sort of control capability to get you out of
> spins and such? Hmmm, OTOH, spinning a jet is pretty much going to
> kill it anyway, so maybe this is simply irrlevant...
I seem to remember that there was a MD-11(?) that was tested at NASA
Dryden which actually used this principle. There are photos of it (along
with several other thrust vectoring research A/C) over at
http://www.dfrf.nasa.gov/dryden.html
Rob W. (-:
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-05 0:00 Ada Success Story II Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Rob Wells [this message]
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-09 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Peter Amey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-03-10 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-11 0:00 `
1997-03-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-02-27 0:00 Ken Garlington
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-28 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Ender
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