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A multi-axis thrust vectoring engine nozzle in motion. Thrust vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine(s) or motor(s) to control the attitude or angular velocity of the vehicle.
Gimbaled thrust for different gimbal angles Animation of the motion of a rocket as the nozzle is gimbaled Gimbaled thrust is the system of thrust vectoring used in most rockets , including the Space Shuttle , the Saturn V lunar rockets, and the Falcon 9 .
The Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31 is an experimental jet aircraft designed to test fighter thrust vectoring technology. It was designed and built by Rockwell and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), as part of a joint United States and German Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability program to provide additional control authority in pitch and yaw, for significantly more maneuverability than ...
Pre-production F-15B with 2D nozzles, early 1980s, a predecessor of STOL/MTD program. In 1975, Langley Research Center began to conduct sponsored programs studying two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles; [6]: 44 government and industry studies of non-axisymmetric two-dimensional (2-D) nozzles in the early 1970s had identified significant payoffs for thrust-vectoring 2-D nozzle concepts.
The NF-16D VISTA testbed aircraft incorporated a multi-axis thrust vectoring (MATV) engine nozzle that provides for more active control of the aircraft in a post-stall situation. As a result, the aircraft is supermaneuverable , retaining pitch and yaw control at angles of attack beyond which the traditional control surfaces cannot change attitude.
The AL-37FU and AL-31FP variants have thrust vectoring. The AL-37FU was an experimental thrust vectoring variant for a modified Su-27M, later designated Su-37, and was uprated to 14.5 tonnes-force (142.2 kN; 31,970 lbf) of thrust. The thrust vectoring nozzles could deflect ±15° in the vertical plane together for pitch or differentially for roll.
Bell X-14 thrust vectoring vanes View of the X-14's thrust vectoring vanes used to transition from vertical to horizontal flight from the Ropkey Armor and Aviation Museum . Bell constructed the X-14 as an open- cockpit , all-metal ( duralumin ) monoplane for the USAF .
A testbed J-10B powered by a WS-10 with thrust vectoring (TVC) – called "WS-10B-3" by Jamie Hunter – was demonstrated at the 2018 China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition. [29] The TVC nozzle uses actuator-assisted moving petals, similar in concept to General Electric 's axisymmetric vectoring exhaust nozzle (AVEN) and Pratt ...