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2. List of aircraft braking systems - Wikipedia

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   List of aircraft braking systems. Space Shuttle Discovery landing after STS-116, with its drogue parachute deployed and its rudder split to act as an air brake. Aircraft braking systems include: Aircraft disc brakes in the landing gear, used to brake the wheels while touching the ground. These brakes are operated hydraulically, pneumatically or ...

3. Air brake (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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   Air brake (aeronautics) In aeronautics, air brakes or speed brakes are a type of flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase the drag on the aircraft. [1] When extended into the airstream, air brakes cause an increase in the drag on the aircraft. When not in use, they conform to the local streamlined profile of the aircraft in order ...

4. Aerobraking - Wikipedia

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   Aerobraking. Aerobraking is a spaceflight maneuver that reduces the high point of an elliptical orbit (apoapsis) by flying the vehicle through the atmosphere at the low point of the orbit (periapsis). The resulting drag slows the spacecraft. Aerobraking is used when a spacecraft requires a low orbit after arriving at a body with an atmosphere ...

5. Safran Landing Systems - Wikipedia

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   Safran Landing Systems. Safran Landing Systems, formerly Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, is the world's largest manufacturer of aircraft landing gear, and is involved in the design, development, manufacture and customer support of all types of aircraft landing gear, wheels and brakes. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Safran SA. [6]

6. Bendix Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Bendix Corporation. Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft brakes, aeronautical hydraulics and electric power systems, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and ...

7. Collins Aerospace announces $200 million West Plajns factory ...

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   May 20—Collins Aerospace, an airplane parts manufacturer, announced Monday plans to spend $200 million to expand its carbon brake factory on the West Plains. The spending will add about 70,000 ...