Thrust vectoring flight control to maximize future jet transport flight safety

At the end of the first 100 years of conventional, Aerodynamic Flight Control [AFC] based aviation, we now arrive at the gate of much safer flight control methodologies and technologies. It is indeed the beginning of a new era in aviation - an era marked by complete roll-yaw-pitch Thrust Vectoring Flight Control [TVFC] that is almost free from the dangerous characteristics of AFC. TVFC becomes highly effective in the 'impossible-to-fly' post-stall domain and in the conventional domain. It is stall/spin-free and will advance air transportation into a much safer era. Fighters, trainers, private, biz and airline transport jets will be vectored in the near future. By using rapid engine-nozzle jet deflections they would all maintain much safer flight control when AFC fails. And it can indeed prevent most air-flight catastrophes [Cf., e.g., US Patent 5,782,431 of July 21, 1998 on 'Thrust Vectoring/Reversing Systems']. Since 1987 our Jet Laboratory has demonstrated, for the first time in aviation history, the ability of yaw-pitch-roll TVFC in the deep post-stall domain and the ability to civilize military TVFC to provide safe, stall/spin-free and AFC-free flight. This paper stresses that much of this new experience should cause a significant re-assessment of pilot and academic education in the near term.