Less jargon 

This is a good article, but in a few sections there is too much aviation jargon or unexplained technical detail. For example, it refers to "the high alpha needed at rotation". What is an alpha?  (What is rotation?).  As another example, there is no explanation (or citation...) of the following statement: "63% of the aircraft's thrust is attributed to the intakes whilst the exhaust nozzles generate 29% and the engines just 8% of the thrust". What is a non-aviation reader to make of this statement? How can the engines only produce 8% of the thrust?

I just offer these two examples; there are a few others. Can someone please look through the article and make the needed edits? I don't think it will be a lot of work.