Why does the shuttle throttle on ascent?

Peter Stickney wrote:
(The only German fighter pilots who got instrument training were the
NachtJagd.


How would you like to be the pilot of one of those single seat radar
equipped FW-190 night fighters?
That must have kept one mighty busy.
See if you can figure this out BTW; it's a Ba-349 "Natter" control
panel:
http://www.fantasyofflight.com/Image...er_Cockpit.jpg
That thing in the middle with the crosshairs on it has to have something
to do with the semi-automated way it was vectored by ground control to
the incoming bombers... but how does it work? I don't think the nose was
recoverable after being jettisoned, so it has to be cheap, but it looks
pretty sophisticated, like something that might have a gyro or cathode
ray tube in it.

Pat