The New Era of Stealth, Tailless, Vectored Aircraft. A 2010 Review on Current & Future Designs and Applications of Manned and Unmanned, Super-Agile and Safest Military v. Civil Jets

A new era in aviation has evolved since the introduction of integrated Stealth, Tailless, Vectored Systems [STVS] in 1986 to various U.S. Government agencies and non-government entities /2/. The so disclosed STVS technologies include partial and complete roll-yaw-pitch Thrust Vectoring Flight Control [TVFC], which is free from the dangerous stall and spin phenomena that characterize current uses of the obsolete, 110-years-old, Conventional Flight Control [CFC] in current civil and military jets. Military TVFC-based designs are aimed at providing super-agility, enhanced safety and new flight control options. In turn, the slowly emerging civil TVFC technologies convert military TVFC to civil ones that include various land and sea safety means /30/. By 2010 the new STVS and TVFC technologies have well been tested and proven via different subscale and full-scale prototypes [Appendix]. Currently, the new technologies appear to potentially apply to an almost endless set of civil and military safety needs. Much of the current effort remains in the military domain, where STVS and TVFC provide clear-cut advantages over CFC by providing super-agility in flight domains in which CFC fails. Indeed, by now, TVFC has been well-proven to enhance survivability, efficiency and stealth, and in preventing air catastrophes in take-off, landing, mid-air collision and when all airframe hydraulics fail. Such STVS-TVFC applications are reviewed here beyond the author's 1990/1991 book /4/, U.S. patent /30/, publications /4-32/ and seminars-disclosures. /33/, which contain much more details than in this general review.