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Delta jet pulls up 100 feet as private jet takes off

A Delta Connection regional jet pulled out of its landing about 100 feet above a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after a private jet began an unauthorized takeoff across its path. The two ...
The key part is a nozzle. Engineers slotted an Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, or AVEN, into GE’s F110-GE-129E engine. Then they fired it up at a test site in Peebles, Ohio. The nozzle pivots ...