U.S. Navy completes extremely short take-off and landing testing using X-31

X-TRA SHORT LANDING The X-31 Vector aircraft completed its extremely short takeoff-and-landing flight testing last month at the U.S. Navy's Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. The demo was designed to show the utility of using thrust vector-control technology to achieve extremely short takeoff and...

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