You might think the world’s largest passenger plane, the A380, needs all the help it can get to come to a stop after landing. With that assumption, you’d think the A380 would have reverse thrusters on all four of its engines.
However, reverse thrusters are just one tool in the A380’s braking armory. When the A380 was designed, it was soon established that having reverse thrusters on all four A380 engines caused more issues than they solved. Let’s take a closer look…