Space Shuttle Landing. Pilots View.

[PAUL161]

Want to see what the space shuttle pilot sees during a landing approach? Take a look and make sure your sound is on.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3eva3_space-shuttle-sts98-landing-from-co_tech
Dailymotion - Space Shuttle STS-98 Landing from Cockpit View - a Tech & Science video

 

[vagt6]

Holy cow! And a dead stick landing, no power. Like flying a washing machine.

Such skill, amazing.

Thanks for posting.

 

[swift6]

Aren't they always dead stick landings? On re-entry it becomes the worlds heaviest and fastest glider.

 

[Gliderman8]

Hey Paul- I need some of those visual displays for the glider.
A perfect one-shot landing!

 

[SilentUnicorn]

Flying Brick

neat video

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[PAUL161]

Hey Paul- I need some of those visual displays for the glider.
A perfect one-shot landing!

Hey Elliot, we do know about those one shot landings, don't we. No second passes made here.

 

[Gliderman8]

Hey Paul- I need some of those visual displays for the glider.
A perfect one-shot landing!

Hey Elliot, we do know about those one shot landings, don't we. No second passes made here.

You got that exactly right Paul. Although I do know a person who tried a second attempt ONCE in a KA8... the ending was not pretty at all and as you can imagine did not go well. No injuries, except to the plane.
That's the last time it flew, and I for one was not sad to see it go. I never felt comfortable flying that thing with 40 year old wood spars.

 

[hilsideser]

Unbelieveably awesome!

Question though; will we be flying with our comrades soon or will they keep these birds flying?

 

[GregW]

From What I've heard, May 31st is the last shuttle flight. They did bring the Blackbird outta retirement though. So you never know.

 

[PAUL161]

Heard the same thing about the Blackbird. Supposedly replaced by satellite observation to cut costs and supposedly the interesting development of the Aurora project. But I applaud the fact that the fastest airplane in the world is back in business. Did you know it costs $50,000.00 an hour to operate, but what is our national security worth? And we complain about the cost of gas for our cars!

The Blackbird,Mach 3-5

The Aurora,Mach 5-20? Wow! Hypersonic? Who knows.