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It looked like a falling brick when it landed. The angle it came down at was incredibly steep.
by Ididntdothis 6y ago
It looked like a falling brick when it landed. The angle it came down at was incredibly steep.
- db48x 6y agoSlightly less steep than the landing angle of an actual brick though. Edit: glide slope is the word I was looking for.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoI watched it come down over Orlando and it looked like this could never work out. Much steeper than any airplane I have ever seen.
- Gwypaas 6y agoReally love this paragraph on the Shuttle Training Aircraft wikipedia page. To match the descent rate and drag profile of the real Shuttle at 37,000 feet (11,300 m), the main landing gear of the C-11A was lowered (the nose gear stayed retracted due to wind load constraints) and engine thrust was reversed. Its flaps could deflect upwards to decrease lift as well as downwards to increase lift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Training_Aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Training_Aircraft
- Sharlin 6y agoReally drives home how you need to drag any normal airplane kicking and screaming into a regime where it’s as bad at staying in the air as the shuttle was :)
- jaywalk 6y agoDepends on the forward velocity of the brick.
- evgen 6y agoA fun little talk that describes the whole process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU
- JshWright 6y agoAw man, I went to go find this to link it, got caught up in watching it again, and by the time I got back you had beaten me to it...