Thrust Vectoring Engines: How They Work & Why We Need Them #shorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]I was a propulsion guy, aeronautics engineer kind of thing. Um, those engines uh are have the ability to call what's called thrust vectoring. They'll swing up and they'll swing down. Uh, where would you want to use that? Why does the why do the engines have thrust vectoring?

[00:00:14]>> Um, very low speeds.

[00:00:16]>> Very low speeds. Outstanding. Yep.

[00:00:18]Where's Where's another regime? Think of the flight envelope of the airplane.

[00:00:23]>> Yeah. Very high altitudes.

[00:00:24]>> Very high altitudes. So So why high altitudes?

[00:00:28]a little lift from the wings or the wings could be solid. So, >> yeah. Yeah. Density goes way down as you go up in altitude. So, if I deflect this, I mean, I have to get more deflection to move that air to be able to move the airplane if I'm relying just on the aeros surfaces alone. The way I get around that is I put two 35,000 thrust pound engines, if you will, on board the airplane. And just like a fire hose, if I grab a fire hose and I move it, you would feel that torque on your body. The same thing here uh with with the thrust vectoring on the