Reverse Thrust Before Landing

[Garry Russell]

Must feel great on board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5HLtdGeqE

[TSR2]

I'm sure Peter told us that they did that on occasion in the Tridents

[Garry Russell]

yeah ..The Trident could reverse in the air, and the HS.780, but it's rare to actually see it...although you wouldn't see it on a Trident due to the internal reverser's.

[WhisperJet]

Different aircraft, same engine, same procedure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYuiWPoIbew

Cheers,

Nick

[clavel9]

I'd imagine reverse thrust is armed, and the buckets deployed as airbrakes rather than thrust reverse power actually being applied prior to touchdown. It's not that uncommon: here's a similar example:

http://myaviation.net/?pid=00612765
Pretty nifty installation, with the exhaust cowling sliding back and allowing the buckets to close.

And here, the "butterfly" reverse thrust vents are already open on touchdown:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/ ... WBD-44.jpg

But this is my favourite example of reverse thrust in action:

http://youtu.be/4IaWn7kX4Es

[DarrenL]

Must feel great on board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5HLtdGeqE

Did he think he'd touched down already or was it in panic of a possibly overshoot?

[WhisperJet]

@Darren

As far as I know it is a quite common procedure on the TU154 and on the IL62.
With the YAK40 it's standard to reverse number 2 before flaring.

As you can hear at the IL62 link above, it's idle reverse...

Cheers,

Nick

[VEGAS]

Now I know why they refer to them as Careless

[NigelC]

Now I know why they refer to them as Careless

[Garry Russell]

Nice link Eddie