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A entertaining explanation on what it took to land the shuttle   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Physics is cool. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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yes. way cool video. thanks | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
awesome. | |||
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Thanks! JC | |||
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Very good! Thanks for posting..... _________ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Can you imagine being the first crew to make that landing and the trust you'd need to have for the physicists and mathematician's calculations. Major pucker factor right there. That first crew had brass balls the size of a house.  Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Very cool indeed. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Only in an insane world are the sane considered insane. The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
They did landing tests in 1977 by dropping it from a plane. It's just a big glider ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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This popped up in my YouTube recommended videos a while back, entertaining & informational. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Except it glides like a brick.  ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Happiness is Vectored Thrust  |
Very good video - very entertaining. Thanks for posting! The use of angle of bank, speed brakes, etc. to control rate of descent and airspeed are very similar to a throttle stuck at high power approach in the A-4 Skyhawk. Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
They just need to add brakes to the shuttle. DUH!  | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
If I had to choose between the space shuttle or Air Canada Flight 143, The shuttle. Easy peasy. | |||
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Had to look it up, knew it by it's nickname. I imagine a 767 makes a better glider than the Shuttle. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
That was great! | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Cool video. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr. |
Yup, but the shuttle guys had extra luxuries such as instrumentation, controls that worked, a known place to set the bird down, etc... I wouldn't be able to land one in the Hudson River either. | |||
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If you want to try for yourself, you need to try this sim: F-Sim Shuttle http://f-sim.com/ I have had it on my iphone and Kindle for years. The flight model is great, and the audio actually was taken from the flight in that video. The program is fun in that you can also perform numerous full HAC approaches at either Edwards or Kennedy, day or night, with fully adjustable weather variables (short of rain). You can also fly with failures of guidance, HUD, hydraulics, etc. The quick flight option starts you straight in at 10,000'. I highly recommend it! Todd phxtoad "Careful man, there's a beverage here!" | |||
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I remember watching the first shuttle landing from space. John Young was the command pilot. He put his wheels down on the runway at the exact spot marked in black. Guidance help or not, fly-by-wire or not, extremely impressive! _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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