I get to manufacture expensive aircraft parts every day.
Yes, I make a living producing parts for war machines.
Thank you W.
No, you guys have got it all wrong.
Thrust Vectoring was first used in a trivial form on Nazi Germany’s V-2 rockets. These rockets were devastating to the Allies in WWII with their accuracy due to graphite control vanes that helped the guidance of the missile.
Modern rockets, both SAMs and Air-to-Air missiles have been using thrust vectoring to increase their agility in flight, and hence make them more lethal. During the Cold War German military planers recognized the shear numbers of Soviet fighters, and believing that any war would include intense Dog Fighting, began to look for ways to even the odds. Wolfgang Herbst with the Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm, now Deutsche Aerospace, Company led a team in Post-Stall engineering.
Post-Stall describes a flight condition in which normal flight controls, like flaps, are no longer sufficient to maintain the flight ability of the aircraft.
His team investigated new flight laws to describe the movement of an aircraft in Post-Stall flying conditions.
Why is Thrust Vectoring so important for modern day fighter jets? It‘s main purpose is to provide our jets with more mobility in close encounter (within visual range) combat. During a dog fight planes lose speed and altitude to gain a high angle of attack, (AOA).
These high AOA can produce a stall, or loss of flight controls in an aircraft, but a jet with thrust vectoring can have a much higher AOA without stalling. A jet with thrust vectoring can perform a maneuver called the “helicopter” where it is in a controlled flat spin while the nose of the fighter, hence its gun, remains on its target. This added agility can also help fighters avoid deadly missile attacks that have threatened the lives of so many of our pilots in conflicts in Vietnam and Iraq. Thrust Vectoring can also be used to overcome flight limitations in bomb runs, and maintain maneuverability even with the additional bomb load.
It can also shorten the takeoff distances, and reduce the “wind-over-deck” requirement for launching aircraft from our Navy carriers. This technology can also compensate for battle damage to regular flight controls. In the future it could reducing weight and drag by getting rid of radar-reflecting surfaces.
Thrust vectoring can also allow for greater thrust expansion ratios by allowing the pilot to control the exhaust exit area independently of the throat of the engine’s exhaust. These are just some of the benefits that we know can occur through this system, but until it is put in a combat arena all the benefits will not be seen.
duh. :bloated:
the really funny thing is I understand all of this. :ohnoes:
Deuce
January 9, 2006, 6:50am
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I get to manufacture expensive aircraft parts every day.
Yes, I make a living producing parts for war machines.
Thank you W.
what parts do you make and for what aircraft?
That is classified information, I could tell you but then I would have to kill you.:snky:
We make servo housings, bodies and manifolds for military and commercial airplanes and helicopters.
Ahhh, Moog Employee?
I’m an engineer at the other Aviation company in EA.
Deuce
January 9, 2006, 8:07am
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That is classified information, I could tell you but then I would have to kill you.:snky:
We make servo housings, bodies and manifolds for military and commercial airplanes and helicopters.
It’s ok i have a security clearance :snky:
No, actually I own a company that manufactures parts for companies like Moog and that other one in EA.
We don’t always know where the parts are used but we have shipped parts to Area 51.
“The other company”
oh really? What part of the company? Production?
If you’ve shipped parts to Area 51, then I have to take a guess at oh, crap, I can’t think of the company right now… I know who it is, and I’ve been there for a couple projects; although I don’t believe we’ve sent any parts over there for a while now. I just can’t remember the name.
Aircraft parts are a world unto themselves, that’s for sure.
