VISTA F-16D research plane to get 'permanent' vectoring capability

Pratt&Whitney's defeat of General Electric in a bid to add thrust- vectoring capability to the F-16/VISTA variable stability research plane not only gives P&W's pitch-yaw/balanced beam nozzle, or PY/BBN, entree to a long-term thrust-vectoring research effort, but also significantly expands the test...

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