Shuttle Training Aircraft (1988) - White Sands Space Harbor, NASA, HD Remaster

[@airmakay1961]

Terrific film, truly unique airplanes. I flew G2s in the '80s and '90s and the "Shuttle G2s" were a hot topic. Had the opportunity to meet a pair of pilots from the program during a recurrent training session at CAE Simuflite. Scored mission patches!

[@redhelmet8]

500 practice approaches before the actual thing. Damn... That's easily 100+ hours of training in approaches alone.

[@JuanSanchez-zg7ti]

If I am not mistaken, my friend AF Col. Kittinger ; first to jump from a ballon above 100,000 feet above the Earth , bought this aircraft from NASA for his personal use.I dont know if he is still alive; but the F4 Phantom that he flew in Vietnam is on a pedestal at the Memorial Park at the Orlando Executive Airport in Florida.

[@NBurbine]

I have driven past that F-4 many times, thank you for sharing it's history

[@lisabergman1444]

I went to space camp many years ago and adored my experience Was a shuttle era kid and appreciate NASA acronyms!

[@joeblough4605]

Is that some even dorkier version of Band Camp?

[@briansantana3157]

womp womp@@joeblough4605

[@SpAm-AcCoUnT]

One of the STAs is on display at the Evergreen in McMinnville, OR. It’s really neat.

[@rdhunkins]

Thanks for sharing this video. Great insight into how the STA worked!

[@chefdownunder92]

NASA did some pretty cool engineering.

[@rickyrico80]

Always good to see Hoot!

[@fhturner3]

Looks like him, but not Hoot, I don't think. Can't tell who that is. Appears to be wearing STS-51I patch, but not Joe Engle or Dick Covey either...

[@Gort58]

A really informative video. Thanks for posting. It looks like two instructors were used for the Instructor and Astronaut roles. At 06:39, the guy on the left wears an STS-51A patch on his flight-suit, and the 'astronaut' on the right is wearing an STS-51I patch. Neither of them were members of those crews.

[@MrBen527]

I used to watch the ( I believe G-3s) at Edward's do their thing at night. This was 22 plus years ago.

[@stephanbuschmann7028]

Thank you verry much for uploading this video. I was locking for a video about the STA like that so Long. But i think they are hard to find

[@BobGeogeo]

The X-15 was also a bit of a Shuttle simulator, but just for Joe Engle (I think).

[@Manaritzis88]

The most beautiful gulfstream ever

[@spacexrocks1041]

Great video, have not seen before, under-reported project - Thanks!

[@mizzyroro]

Main landing gear that are able to deploy in-flight? Phenomenal! Who would hsve thought an aircraft would ever be able to deploy its landing gear while in flight. 😂🙄

[@hingle_mccringleberry]

Mains were deployed independently of the nose gear, which is unique

[@mizzyroro]

@@hingle_mccringleberry true. Except he didn't say that. 🙂

[@briancavanagh7048]

The shuttle flight simulator in the fly by wire system with a back up reverting to “normal” flight controls at the push of a button is probably more complex than that explanation.

[@johnnyallred3753]

Great video!. Where are the 3 Shuttle Training Aircraft today, Anyone know?. I heard one is Amarillo Texas and that there were 4 STA's not 3?.

[@OregonWingnut]

Evergreen Air and Space Museum in Oregon has one of these out back. You can see it on mapping applications. They also have a display of the flight deck of a shuttle if I recall correctly.

[@GDuncan8002]

One is at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville Alabama.

[@steves219]

You are correct on one being in Amarillo. I was able to walk through pre- Covid-19 Nice museum next to the airport and definitely worth a few hours to take in.

[@wallywally8282]

Fascinating 👍

[@ScrotusXL]

Imagine doing 500 of them!!!!😮

[@Danger_mouse]

500 simulated landing before a real flight 😳

[@maxwellwalcher6420]

WOuld you do the 1st Jupiter launch and the 1st Atlas Launch and the 1st Thor Launch Please.

[@АлексейСысоев-ъ8к]

Главное не забыть выпустить шасси...

[@TastyBusiness]

Man, that AI upscale really screws up faces, text, and hard lines. if you're going to insist on this sort of "upscale", can you atleast try other versions? It's distracting seeing what should say NASA on the tail of the STA looking downright illegible because AI misinterpreted the letters.

[@NoSTs123]

I agree

[@peterlovett5841]

Anyone know what happened to the G2s'?

[@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24]

My uncle has one he's a billionaire and uses it on weekends

[@Hawkster78]

nice video - what happened to that STA planes? they are preserved somewhere?

[@justinmills4566]

Was that Roger zweig?

[@saito125]

How can the "center of rotation" be on the nose and not on the CofG?

[@BQN2010]

Because the shuttle had a Delta wing and no horizontal stabilizer(tail). The entire ship pivots from the nose. In contrast, in an aircraft with a conventional tail, the tail surface acts as one end of a seesaw with the nose of the aircraft at the other end.

[@stephanbuschmann7028]

Whats with Delta wing Jets like the old Mirage Jets? Do they also have the center of rotation in the nose?

[@senseisecurityschool9337]

Raising the elevons reduces the effective wing area, which decreases the total lift. Therefore causing the entire aircraft to descend. While the entire thing is descending, the nose is descending *less* than the tail. You can model it as a rotation about the CG *combined* with the entire aircraft descending. It's just that the point of the CG falls faster than the nose rises relative to the CG, so the net effect is that the nose falls a bit, while the tail falls more.

[@travistolbert2647]

I've said it before and I'll say it now 'AI upscaling' is trash! You have done nothing with this incredible video, but make a normally sharp decent picture for the time period look like soft muddled garbage. With text that would normally be readable look like childish water color markings! STOP using this on historical videos!

[@Sammy19327]

Space shuttle was a total waste of money. Hardly capable of LEO.

[@dba1222]

Yeah total waste of time. ISS complete waste of time. Honestly we should have just stayed on the ground.

[@hingle_mccringleberry]

Doesn’t matter, still cool

[@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24]

​@@dba1222The shuttle was a load of crap tbh. Extremely dangerous to operate in return for very limited capability. The shuttle literally relied on luck to function correctly. No serious engineer can honestly say that's a good machine 😂

[@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24]

​@@hingle_mccringleberryit does matter. If they didn't waste such money on this they could have instead made more progress towards exploring our solar system. Perhaps we'd have been on Mars on the early 2000s if they'd not blown money on this project. I mean it wasn't even really reusable since it was basically rebuilt every flight. Didn't deliver on any of its design goals.

[@hingle_mccringleberry]

@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 I still think the Space Shuttle was cool and good

[@Samvel-r5l]

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