Just a bit more grist for the mill - as if it were needed:)
One of the type of up-coming generations of a/c are likely to be controlled by thrust alone. No moving control surfaces and probably tailess.
What I haven't figured out yet is if the concept's relying upon a very simple aerodynamic model, with lots of excess thrust, in which case simulating it might be possible(?), or it might rely upon clever aerodynamics, which I would have thought would be pretty difficult to simulate.
But bearing that in mind, the AP design and structure will need to be flexible enough to work with these sorts of a/c control systems.
I guess it also touches on the area of missile control systems too.
My understanding is that they will be doing a lot of thrust vectoring ... lots of research is/has been done in that area.
Curt. -- Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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