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2. Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   Truck air-actuated disc brake. An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.

3. Air brake - Wikipedia

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   Air brake (aeronautics), a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed On ground vehicles, (more formally, specified as) compressed-air-actuated braking systems: Air brake (road vehicle) , friction-mediated type of brake used on large road vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes

4. Railway air brake - Wikipedia

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   A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium. [1] Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse on April 13, 1869. [2] The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was subsequently organized to manufacture and sell Westinghouse's ...

5. Air brake (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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   Often, characteristics of both spoilers and air brakes are desirable and are combined - most modern airliner jets feature combined spoiler and air brake controls. On landing, the deployment of these spoilers ("lift dumpers") causes a significant reduction in wing lift, so the weight of the aircraft is transferred from the wings to the undercarriage.

6. Westinghouse Air Brake Company - Wikipedia

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   Although the plain automatic air brake was a great improvement over the straight air brake, in an emergency the system still applied the brakes to the last cars in a train later than to the first cars in a train. To remedy that condition, George Westinghouse invented the quick-action triple valve in 1887.

7. BMW recalls 2024: Check the list of models recalled this year

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   BMW recalled certain 2023-2024 X1, X5, X6, X7, XM, 530i, i5, 740i, 760i, i7, and 750e vehicles.. The NHTSA report said that the integrated brake system may malfunction and result in a loss of ...

8. Compressed-air car - Wikipedia

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   Compressed air cars are emission free. They also do not require a connection to the electric grid. A wind turbine or other renewable energy source can directly drive an air compressor or hydraulic pump. Compressed air cars do not rely on petrol stations or an electric grid. While centralized infrastructure might not be needed, it is an option.

9. Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes - Wikipedia

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   Also, since the brake pipe is typically used for control and supply of air to the cars, if an engineer is not careful, the air supply can be depleted. Further, since the engineer is only aware of the brake pipe pressure and flow of air into the brake pipe, it is not easy to know the state of the train brakes at any given time.