Originally Posted by
toolmaker7341
I guess you didn't get my tongue in cheek about who "they" were.(the 2 gentleman from across the pond that said pointing the exhust nozzle down is up thrust). This is all in good fun.LOL
You are not looking at this correctly, Thrust is a reactive force, it is what it makes the object do, a rocket sitting pointing up, the jet blast out the bottom, makes the rocket go up, that is why it is referred to as up thrust.
The rocket thrusted upwards, You thrust up, you thrust forward.