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  2. Air brake (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    Air brakes on Airbus A320 Air brakes on the rear fuselage of a Eurowings BAe 146-300 Convair F-106 Delta Dart air brake deployed A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon showing its split speed brakes inboard of the stabilators or "tailerons" An F-15 landing with its large dorsal air brake panel deployed Extended DFS type air brakes on a Slingsby Capstan

  3. List of aircraft braking systems - Wikipedia

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    Levers are used in a few aircraft. Most aircraft are capable of differential braking. [1] Thrust reversers, that allow thrust from the engines to be used to slow the aircraft. Air brakes, dedicated flight control surfaces that work by increasing drag. Large drogue parachutes, used by several former and current military and civilian aircraft ...

  4. 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

  5. Flight control surfaces - Wikipedia

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    Basic aircraft control surfaces and motion. A)aileron B)control stick C)elevator D)rudder. Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective set of flight control surfaces was a critical advance in the development of aircraft.

  6. Autobrake - Wikipedia

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    An autobrake is a type of automatic wheel-based hydraulic brake system for advanced airplanes. [1] The autobrake is normally enabled during takeoff and landing procedures, when the aircraft's longitudinal deceleration system can be handled by the automated systems of the aircraft itself in order to keep the pilot free to perform other tasks.

  7. LTV A-7 Corsair II - Wikipedia

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    A large air brake was fitted on the underside of the aircraft. The three-unit landing gear retracted into the fuselage; ... Maximum speed: 600 kn (690 mph, ...

  8. Dive brake - Wikipedia

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    The dive brakes on this SBD Dauntless are the slotted panels visible under the wings.. Dive brakes or dive flaps are deployed to slow down an aircraft when in a dive. They often consist of a metal flap that is lowered against the air flow, thus creating drag and reducing dive speed.

  9. Cobra maneuver - Wikipedia

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    In aerobatics, the cobra maneuver (or just the cobra), also called dynamic deceleration, [1] among other names (see § Etymology), is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate speed abruptly raises its nose momentarily to a vertical and slightly past vertical attitude, causing an extremely high angle of attack and making the plane into a full-body air brake ...