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The Forgotten F-15
A unique F-15 research airframe (F-15 ACTIVE) was used to develop is used to develop the amazing thrust vectoring technology ...
In test flight over the Mojave desert, the F-15 ACTIVE aircraft experiments with a new thrust-vectoring conception.
In more advanced thrust vectoring platforms like Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35, thrust vector controls allow the jet nozzle to move in any direction, whereas the experimental F-15 STOL/MTD utilized a ...
The nozzle for the left side engine of the Su-27LL-PS’ thrust-vectoring system was developed by NPO Motor and had two flap-like nozzles that can direct the exhaust gasses up and down at an angle ...
Flight tests of thrust-vectoring designs began in the early 1990s with airplanes like NASA’s modified F/A-18 and F-15, the Rockwell/MBB X-31, and a modified Air Force F-16.
The F-22 in particular, which is also equipped with thrust vectoring although only in two dimensions (pitch only), may have much to learn from the Malaysia's Su-30s.