Steve Obbayi wrote:
@Odhiambo the full throttle your talking about is actually a reverse thrust. so with flaps fully open and some sort of a latch or panel usually towards the back of the jext engine housing, this would normally redirect the thrust exhaust from blowing backwards to a more forward direction..this changes the direction the thrust is operating and slows down the plane.
concept is known as air braking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_brake_(aircraft) without it most
of our runways would come out short
Well if any of them fails its likely to run out of runway. I once recall watching an aircraft disaster episode where a plane crashed at the end of the runway and one of the reasons was because the pilots did not raise the flaps. Regards, Mich