Durante la tercera misión del transbordador Columbia, la maniobra de aterrizaje se complicó un poco cuando el shuttle volvió a elevar su tren de aterrrizaje delantero unos instantes. Afortunadamente fue corregido a tiempo.
As far as the "wheelie" goes, because of the high landing speed caused by the autoland system not working correctly the shuttle started to de-rotate too fast (before 160 knots) so the commander pulled it back but there was a software bug that resulted in the unexpected nose-up in that configuration. In the words of Commander Jack Lousma: "That's why we do test flights."
The commander did an excellent job salvaging the bad approach flown by the software.
Just to handle a bunch of the comments in one shot. STS-3 was testing the autoland system for the shuttle (this was a test flight). The system closed the speedbrakes too early resulting in the shuttle being fast and low when the commander took manual control on the inner glideslope as he was scheduled to do. As a result the shuttle landed at 233 knots when it's supposed to touch down between 185 and 195 knots.
Columbia realized she didn't want to get her tires messed up by White Sands' horrible surface ;-) RIP Columbia, you're sadly missed, but your sisters are doing you proud.
Interesting part of this is she was still in auto right up to landing. Normally she'd be taken out of auto ahead of the HAC.
Hook that up with some missles and smart bombs
TheNorthernSoulKing 7 months ago
Multi billion dollar bush flying.
DrPilotRedC 1 year ago
@BasserPeti crazy landing tho
AtlantisB737 1 year ago
Jack Lousma made an excellent job. :))
BasserPeti 2 years ago
As far as the "wheelie" goes, because of the high landing speed caused by the autoland system not working correctly the shuttle started to de-rotate too fast (before 160 knots) so the commander pulled it back but there was a software bug that resulted in the unexpected nose-up in that configuration. In the words of Commander Jack Lousma: "That's why we do test flights."
The commander did an excellent job salvaging the bad approach flown by the software.
odyssey1974 3 years ago
Just to handle a bunch of the comments in one shot. STS-3 was testing the autoland system for the shuttle (this was a test flight). The system closed the speedbrakes too early resulting in the shuttle being fast and low when the commander took manual control on the inner glideslope as he was scheduled to do. As a result the shuttle landed at 233 knots when it's supposed to touch down between 185 and 195 knots.
odyssey1974 3 years ago
That looked like a rough landing.
QuarterPounder4 3 years ago
Columbia realized she didn't want to get her tires messed up by White Sands' horrible surface ;-) RIP Columbia, you're sadly missed, but your sisters are doing you proud.
Interesting part of this is she was still in auto right up to landing. Normally she'd be taken out of auto ahead of the HAC.
Tim733733 3 years ago
UYYYY
ashkaris 3 years ago
i think tha there was a wind or something and the pilot fly too fast and agresive
plavins1 3 years ago