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2. 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.

3. Spoiler (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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   In air-cooled piston engine aircraft, spoilers may be needed to avoid shock cooling the engines. In a descent without spoilers, air speed is increased and the engine will be at low power, producing less heat than normal. The engine may cool too rapidly, resulting in stuck valves, cracked cylinders or other problems.

4. Flight control surfaces - Wikipedia

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   Air brakes are used to increase drag. Spoilers might act as air brakes, but are not pure air brakes as they also function as lift-dumpers or in some cases as roll control surfaces. Air brakes are usually surfaces that deflect outwards from the fuselage (in most cases symmetrically on opposing sides) into the airstream in order to increase form ...

5. Talk:Spoiler (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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   Air brakes are inboard spoilers, I don't think there should be just a hard and fast differentiation between air brakes and spoilers. When you are airbraking on the ground you extend both inboard and outboard spoilers, (or the armed hydraulic system does, after it detects weight on wheels in an airliner), if you are spoiling off speed in the air ...

6. American Airlines Flight 1420 - Wikipedia

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   About 65% of Flight 1420's weight would have been supported by the plane's landing gear if the spoilers had been deployed, but without the spoilers, this number dropped to only 15%. [1]: 134 With the light loading of the landing gear, the aircraft's brakes were ineffective at slowing down the plane, which continued down the runway at high speed.

7. Spoileron - Wikipedia

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   Spoilerons roll an aircraft by reducing the lift of the downward-going wing.Unlike ailerons, spoilers do not increase the lift and drag of the upward-going wing. A raised spoileron increases the drag on the down-going wing where it is deployed, causing the aircraft to yaw in the direction of the turn.

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9. Flap (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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   A spoiler is much larger than a Gurney flap, and can be retracted. Spoilers are usually installed mid chord on the upper surface of the wing, but may also be installed on the lower surface of the wing as well. Air brakes are used to increase drag, allowing the aircraft to decelerate rapidly. When installed on the wings they differ from flaps ...