Talk:Thrust reversal

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The text states "the illustration shows a Target Reverser, where all of the efflux is reversed." Is there a missing illustration? This made me wonder if the text might be a copyvio (i.e., copied from a source with the illustration in question) but nothing turned up in a Google search. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Pacific Western Airlines 311 was a airliner that crashed in 1978 in Cranbrook, BC, Canada. It was a 737 that was making a landing early, so they had to abort due to the snowplow still being on the runway. When they took off, Reverser 1 jammed and caused a crash. I don't know if the flight number is 311, but I remember hearing about it. I'll reasearch it and come back later. It might be worth adding to the article.Delta Elite

[edit] rename proposal

Shouldn't this really be called Thrust reversal or thrust reversers, rather than reverse thrust. I once read a comment by a pilot who said "Reverse thrusters are what spaceships have, thrust reversers are what airplanes have".--Joe 1987 12:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] idle reverse thrust

The explanation of the reverser itself makes perfect sense, however I have no idea what it means for an engine to 'spool up'. As far as I could tell from the article, normal operation of the reverser simply involves the reverser being activated, I didn't read about any other changes to the engine. --Rb 12:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Automatic deployment?

I'll have to see some sources for aircraft with automatically deployed thrust reversers... Automatic wheel brakes and automatic ground spoilers are fairly common, but I dont' think I've ever seen an aircraft with automatic thrust reversers.