Originally Posted by
FullWings
I’m reliably informed that you could indeed use reverse in the air on the HS121 in normal operations, which combined with the other drag devices made it fall out of the sky like a stone. The actual rates of descent have probably been exaggerated in telling over the years but I think they were substantial. I suppose the passengers got used to simulated re-entry manoeuvres when commuting on the Edinburgh shuttle...
To save repetition, there's a discussion on the use of Trident reverse in the flare, notably at EDI, towards the end of this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ow-1971-a.html