NASA's F/A-18 (left) and X-31 are among the airplanes used to gather data for thrust-vectoring. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Remember the scene in the movie Top Gun when Navy pilot Pete ...

Flying a thrust-vectoring rocket can be a challenge, and even more so if you stack multiple stages and a minimalist flight computer on top of it all. But [Joe Barnard] is not one to shy away from ...

A Proposed Fighter That May Be Seen as Very Influential – Before the F-22 Raptor came to fruition, there was the Lockheed Martin X-44 Manta. The X-44 was a proposed warbird that was never produced, ...

Razor VTOL drone with vectoring jet-powered thrust. (Photo: Mayman) The Razor VTOL features gimballed, jet-powered thrust for takeoff and landing and a high-speed sprint speed for fast deliveries on ...

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What's so special about it? Well, the BlackBird demonstrator is designed to test the seventh generation of CycloTech's 360-degree thrust vectoring propulsion system. CycloTech claims that its ...