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Marauder said...

You're only at part one but I'm already enthralled! I know you are currently engaged with this series but I really want to pick your brain on thrust vectoring.

I was digging through the F-15 ACTIVE technical reports and only came away unclear (partially because I'm an electrical engineer by training) as to the actual benefits of plume vectoring (it seemed that the plume deflection angles were rather paltry while the reduction in engine thrust output was quite high) compared to the contributions made by the additions of more control surfaces (the articulated nozzles or more generally the paddles/vanes) and improved FCS.

Sep 10, 2012, 12:24:36 PM

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