From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Ada Success Story II
Date: 1997/03/05
Date: 1997-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97030510245774@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)
Jon S Anthony <jsa@ALEXANDRIA.AMERICAN.EDU> writes:
>> The F22 is not the first plane to use thrust vectoring. There were
>> a number of research programs that mounted thrust vectoring
>> nozzles on things like the F15. We've even built a 3-D nozzle for
>> the F100 engines used by F15s and F16s - nicknamed "the eyeball"
>
>Are these the engines that are to go on the "F15X"? My understanding
>was that this was going to be an actual production version. Yes? No?
>
There might probably be some plans to retrofit some subset of the
existing fleet with "production" thrust vectoring nozzles, but I
am personally unaware of any such activity or operation...
What we've mostly done is build "technology demonstrators" which
someone will take and mount on the back end of an available plane
and fly it around to see if it works the way you thought it
should. We usually do that research in order to better design a
future engine.
It's pretty costly to retrofit some existing airframe and you may
not get all the performance you'd expect because the airframe was
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.
I'm afraid that I don't know anything about the "F15X" (some
experiment being done by McDonnel Douglas?) at the moment.
Anything you can tell me about it so I could find out who to ask?
There might be some interesting control work being done there.
MDC
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M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997
Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-05 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93 [this message]
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Ada Success Story II Peter Amey
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Rob Wells
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-09 0:00 ` JP Thornley
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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 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert S. White
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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