thanks for the info, and yes they did mention thrust vectoring and the programme left an impression that one day it might be used in civian aircrafts but it seems unlikely.
But its still fascinating the way we can hopefully land an a/c using thrust from four engines. Is this something u would practice in flight sims today.
from what i remember Captain Eric Moody did a four engine start up in a sim a couple of months before the real thing.
[This message has been edited by purple haze (edited 05 January 2001).]