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Old 8th Sep 2015, 22:34
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Intruder
 
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There is no doubt that reverser effectiveness IS higher at high speed, but it is difficult to find a thorough explanation in quickly-found documents. One relatively simple graph is in Figure 3 of http://flightsafety.org/files/alar_bn8-4-braking.pdf. A simplistic answer may be that at higher forward speed, the relative [negative] velocity of the reversed airflow is also higher, imparting more [negative] force.
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