I presume you do all realise this is old news? That film clip is dated 28 September 2010???
If you want to know more about the project, it has a home page at
FLAVIIR
Its clearly very much a research project.
Description of the control jets at
Aerodynamics
To quote:
"Control using blown air from the wing trailing edge is being investigated by Manchester. The basic principle is that blown air entrains the upper surface flow thus giving rise to an increase in lift.
The trailing edge has to be modified to become rounded, but in general the thickness of a typical trailing edge does not have to be altered.
Thrust vectoring utilising secondary coanda jets to enable deflection of the primary jet is also being investigated by Manchester. The principle is that deflection of the main jet can be achieved by switching on a higher pressure secondary wall jet which sticks to the geometry and bends the main jet with it.
Basic demonstrations have taken place on laboratory equipment and the research will focus on achieving an optimal design and build for a real aircraft.
Synthetic jets, or zero mass jet actuators are a novel means of controlling flow separation and hence can be used to augment lift and control an air vehicle. These jets are typically around half the boundary layer height (approximately 5mm diameter) in size and it is envisaged that many hundreds of such devices would be enabled on a flying surface to affect control. In order to understand the fundamental principals in using such devices and explore how to use and design with them Imperial College are looking at computational modelling using large eddy simulation (LES). The end goal is to achieve sufficient understanding to enable simpler and faster computational models to be built such that they can be used within the design cycle.
Another form of synthetic jet using small-scale surface deformations is also being investigated experimentally by Imperial College. Here the benefits of such devices over cavity oscillators are being studied.
The bridge between developing novel flow control mechanisms and actually utilising such devices in an aircraft is in the flight dynamics and control required. Hence research is being undertaken both at Cranfield and at Manchester in developing suitable experimental techniques to both develop and test control system software."
There are other pages describing the other research topics within the project