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From: Rob Wells <wll@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada Success Story II
Date: 1997/03/06
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Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
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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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