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 ...

Another day, another Chinese next generation combat aircraft spotted during a test flight. Just one day after the mysterious ...

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 ...

China's next-generation stealth fighters are taking shape in plain sight-and they might be flying circles around the US's ...

The vanes deflect the airstream and provide the thrust vectoring that gives this little machine its control. Coming to the correct control method was not easy, though. Thanks mainly to the strong ...

I got to see the F-22 Raptor show off its insane thrust vectoring capabilities—and it was nothing short of jaw-dropping. From the falling leaf maneuver to J-turns and tail slides, this aircraft ...