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Driver wrote:
For a JSF to go forward during hover, it would need to put it's nose down to get speed due to the fact that the engine is facing down. Because of gravity that means the jet will go nose down into the ground so the only way a JSF could do that is by either by having enough power comming out of the engines to compensate meaning it would gradually rise or by removing all friction.
As long as there is a reserve of thrust of course it could move forward in a hover. As you say, dip the nose to change the thrust vector down and aft imparting a forward acceleration.
Since the net upward thrust decreases at any angle other than 90 degrees, a little more throttle would be required to maintain altitude an accelerate forward. Exactly how a helicopter behaves in a hover. If you push the cyclic forward you're going to also need to pull collective to maintain altitude. |
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