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F 22 lightning 3 drawing8/25/2023 ![]() The United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France all built and tested multiple VTOL fighter designs. Such aircraft, secured in hardened shelters, could still take off and land from bases with damaged runways. Interest in designs for vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, fighter aircraft began in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War when NATO bases were seen as vulnerable to preemptive attacks. ![]() ![]() The nozzle also provides yaw control during hover and during transitions to hover. The 3BSD can move through ninety-five degrees of motion seamlessly with no change in engine operation. The nozzle, mounted at the back of the aircraft, allows the thrust from the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine to be vectored from straight aft for conventional flight to straight down for STOVL operations. A critical component of the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing, STOVL, variant of the Lightning II is the three-bearing swivel duct nozzle, or 3BSD.
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