A two-dimensional air jet, heated at a density ratio of 0.8, under external forcing by flexible wires is investigated experimentally. In each shear layer of the hot jet flow, a wire of diameter 0.23 mm (0.015 jet width) is flexibly mounted along the spanwise direction. By flow visualization, temperature measurements, and spectral analysis, the study demonstrates that the wires have quite different effects on the jet flow depending on that the wires are motionless or vibrating in the flow, and the shear layers of the heated plane jet can be manipulated by means of flexible wires.