Excellent video! Fun fact … one of the major modifications to the STA Gulfstream was to the engine reversers. The Rolls-Royce Spey 511-8 engine “target” type reversers were replaced with “cascade” type reversers used on other Spey powered aircraft. This allowed the engine reversers to be operated in flight. The reverse thrust was varied by the shuttle training pilot as he operated the STA’s speed brake handle simulating the effect of the Shuttle’s split rudder speed brake. A computer in the STA varied the engine reverse thrust to simulate the effect of the Shuttle’s speed brake based on the pilot’s inputs! As a rule, jet engine thrust reversers are not deployed in flight but there are a few exceptions, the DC-8 and C-17 being two examples. Thanks for this video!
I flew that sim hundreds of times...in the lab.. ;-) oh.. and wrote most low level code and the guidance code when we switched to Ada and Motorola CPUs. Went for a sim flight just before I left. Was cool as heck!
Excellent video! Fun fact … one of the major modifications to the STA Gulfstream was to the engine reversers. The Rolls-Royce Spey 511-8 engine “target” type reversers were replaced with “cascade” type reversers used on other Spey powered aircraft. This allowed the engine reversers to be operated in flight. The reverse thrust was varied by the shuttle training pilot as he operated the STA’s speed brake handle simulating the effect of the Shuttle’s split rudder speed brake. A computer in the STA varied the engine reverse thrust to simulate the effect of the Shuttle’s speed brake based on the pilot’s inputs! As a rule, jet engine thrust reversers are not deployed in flight but there are a few exceptions, the DC-8 and C-17 being two examples. Thanks for this video!
Thank-you so much for the awesome informational comment!
Strong work Norm very detailed !
I flew that sim hundreds of times...in the lab.. ;-) oh.. and wrote most low level code and the guidance code when we switched to Ada and Motorola CPUs.
Went for a sim flight just before I left. Was cool as heck!
Awesome - do you know how many years they had this program? Can you confirm four aircraft were converted? Were they based in New Mexico?