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From: bryden@vax1.acs.udel.edu (Christopher F. Bryden)
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Subject: Re: viffing
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Date: 30 Jun 89 20:10:40 GMT
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From: "Christopher F. Bryden" <bryden@vax1.acs.udel.edu>

In article <7859@cbnews.ATT.COM> convex!gray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ron Gray) writes:
}
}VIFFing is indeed Vectoring in Forward Flight, however early Viffing 
}experiments were performed by the British Hawker-Siddeley Test Pilot 
}Hugh Merewether in the Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR Mark 1 prototype XV276. 
}(First Flight of XV276 was 31st August 1966).

So, can the Soviet pseudoequivalent (Forger) vector in forward flight?
>From what I understand, it has a pair of jet engines near the nose of 
the aircraft that balance rear engine outlets that can vector rearward 
(throught 90 degrees) to downward.

Chris
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