Saturday, April 11, 2009
Shuttle Atlantis cockpit landing video
Shuttle Landing From the Cockpit: This video looks through the HUD (Heads Up Display) on Atlantis's flight deck. You'll hear flight deck audio of three astronauts interacting. The video starts at about FL830 (83,000 ft), mach 2.5 velocity at 1.1 Gs. You'll hear the term H A C (Heading Alignment Cylinder) used a lot. It's the shuttle's version of a traffic pattern to line up with the runway center-line. It is a circular instead of rectangular pattern. Landing is a team sport, as you'll see.
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For those of you who (like me) are a bit slow on the uptake, click the title of the post to get the link to video. Or click here for the Shuttle Atlantis cockpit landing video.
For what it's worth, the video's host, wades.web.st, was displaying error messages to me about bandwidth being used up. So you might also want to look at NASA's STS-112 Daily Videos gallery, page 12 of which has three brief videos of the landing with views of the Heads-Up Display (HUD) on landing approach.
Enjoy!
Sure is a steep glideslope and these people have to nail it. No go around here. Cool Vid.
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