Space Shuttle Training Aircraft STA Landing Video

Courtesy NASA

The STA is a Gulf Stream II jet that was modified to simulate an orbiter's cockpit and handling qualities. In flight, the aircraft duplicates the orbiter's atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet altitude to landing on a runway

Shuttle Landing Trainer

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[choidj]

Were the engines cut off?

[humanoidalistic]

One of these days Jim Dutton's voice is going to change...

[EinkOLED]

The engines are put in reverse, speed brakes up and the gulfstream resembles a space shuttle in descent. The decent is something like 27.000 feet a minute.

[kwerrewk]

@choidj believe it or not, they were reverse-thrusted mid flight

[ReverendBow]

@aescobar32

Try at 95-100% in Reverse Thrust....

Not idle

[yugo1313]

yeah i was there !! actually i was taking a dump back there that day i ate beans n u know jajajajja

[Chick6517]

i was bored and i knew that all i needed was some youtube and yes your videos have been keeping me entertained

[chick5581]

I say it the same way D: haha your awesome.. im sarcastic with people like that too... im an aussie in america.. so every conversation is pretty much like that.. the bloody shitters~

[MarcusLeepapi]

Wow! Thanks man...

[neversaydie1990]

great

[aescobar32]

also probably flaps up!... gotta have a stonger landing gear to simulate a zero-trust high speed landing