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Old 23rd Feb 2005, 22:12
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Milt
 
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Hot Brakes

Simply put - your aircraft brake disks, apart from creating high friction on demand, are a repository for energy you want to throw away.

The design of the brake units must be capable of absorbing close to ALL of the energy you have built up on a take off when you abort and execute a desperate stop.

Nearly All of that energy is converted to heat.

If you start off with brake units already storing a lot of heat then your capability to subsequently complete an accelerate -stop is voided. You will end up in a heap !!

Nurse them guys and appreciate their limitations.
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