How airplane 'air brakes' (thrust reversers) work

[NicholasRiviera-Dr]

Great video showing how a thrust reverser works.
The “connected flaps” are called blocker doors.
I’ve been in the aircraft maintenance industry for over 30 years and we never refer to the thrust reverses as airbrakes. The airbrakes are the spoiler panels on the top surface of the wing and we don’t really refer to them as airbrakes either, they are called speed brakes or spoilers - calling them air brakes is a social media thing

[jeremygatan]

Is this why there’s a big roaring sound when slowing down on runways after touchdown?

[Shangibug]

You are truly amazing person. Your capabilities to make things easy to learn is unique!! Thank you!! ❤

[RRR]

Awesome! I was looking for an explanation on how "sliding" reverse thrusters work, and this visualization is perfect!

[aqimjulayhi]

Air brakes are what you call the spoilers on a commercial airplane. Reverse thrusters are just called reverse thrusters. Other than the terminology issue, this is an excellent illustration. Bravo!

[chickywilly]

Truly one of the BEST detailed dynamic graphics covering this topic I’ve ever seen. Great job! 🙂👍

[TonyFMMA]

There is a massive difference between air brakes and thrust reversers.

[NokiaPhoneOveralls]

Good to know, there is many thrust reversal designs. This one here is common on many bypass turbine engines

[jimmay]

I've rigged the T/Rs as an A&P mechanic, and this animation of the airflow at work is great. Should show the other exhaust deflector types in action.

[skylerstream]

air brakes and spoilers above the wing, whilst reverse thrust is just reverse thrust, plus you don't wanna use reverse thrust mid-air or you'll just stall right outta the sky

[Camicattos]

Never knew these existed in my 35 years of life

[vtxrecruiter]

Once the blocker doors close, the air travels through a set of cascade vanes to direct the thrust forward. Good job though!

[stingray]

Nobody ever animates the thrust, going out of the back from the inside of the engine, while reverse is active. This thrust is still pretty significant

[parkershaw]

Thanks! That finally makes sense to me now. Only the by pass air is reversed.

[kpec]

These men were so brilliant to think this stuff up, the Boeing people back in the day.

[Southghost]

I like how this is well known and practiced, and physicists still fight over whether a fan blowing into a sail can still move forward.

[barryrahn]

I drive for UPS and every night for years I would go to Ohare airport to drop off overnight air packages. Right outside the dropoff building was a fence snd right pn the other side would be parked 747's. You could stand about fifty feet from these behemoths and marvel at them. If you're not a pilot or ground crew this is about as close as you can get. I love jets.

[marto]

Damn this is smart😮 i thought it was thrusting the fan it self 😂

[thunderstorm]

I always wondered how that worked thanks : )

[ethanwinchester]

Am I correct to believe this implies for thrust reversers of this kind only the bypass flow is being interrupted and the turbine work flow is uninterrupted?