X-31 24-degree angle of attack landing

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On April 29 at NAS Pawtuxet River, Maryland, the unique Vector X-31 made the world's first fully automated, 24-degree angle of attack (AoA) thrust-vectored landing. The high AoA landing marked the final flight in the Vector's three-year ESTOL (extremely short takeoff and landing) program. The project was designed to demonstrate the viability of ESTOL thrust vectoring and was carried out with a collaboration of the U.S. Navy, Germany's Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) and Boeing Aerospace.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: September 1, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Author: shoupmill

Length: 00:00:12
Rating: 4.86
Views: 12369

Tags: X-31 Aviation aircraft airplanes

Video Comments:
X207BlitzGundam (December 23, 2007 at 6:25 am)
wats the point of landing like that????
Frankie331edc (January 26, 2008 at 8:11 am)
The point is to shorten the landing distance. In other words, its to shorten the distance needed for the plane to come to a complete stop right after touch down. Higher angles of attack or flying "nose high" enables you to fly at slower speeds, and slower landing speeds require less distance to come to a complete stop.
pacauchon (August 1, 2007 at 2:18 am)
like ive said on the other videos of the x-31 maneuvers, thrust vectoring is the shiznit.
i remember being young and playing with paper airplanes, wishing i had a system like that to control my stalls.
BlinkyBillthekoala (April 1, 2007 at 2:57 am)
is it so that the F-22 is capable of doing that??? i heard that they are planning thrust vectoring on the EF that it will be capable of landing lik that.
meankookoo (January 6, 2008 at 6:00 am)
F-22 can do everything this jet can do. The f-22 has the same thrust vectoring system.
Bonkker (January 15, 2007 at 9:24 pm)
AoA 24 degree landing - AWESOME!
snak5 (January 8, 2007 at 5:46 pm)
no it wasn't crashed it was a computer controlled maneuver
LNBlankZ (December 11, 2006 at 4:09 pm)
ALMOST CRASHED