Re: [ST] Counter Rotating Brakes

[Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous email, Gavin Lawrie wrote:
> 'Air brakes' turn kinetic energy into hotter air.

???
I always assumed that air brakes used pressurized air to retract the 
pistons. Thus when you loose air pressure the wheels lock up. IIRC, back 
when I had my Class 2 license, on trucks equipped w/ air brakes I would 
have to let the pressure build up before I could release the parking brake.

Then there is that Bugs Bunny cartoon when he stops the airplane in a 
nose dive inches from the ground by applying the air brakes.

OTOH maybe the air brakes that you speak of are what they use in Congress.


-- 
Steve Lawler
Verona, NJ, USA

2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely 
insane every night of our lives."
             -- William Dement
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