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Old 13th February 2019 | 23:13
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B2N2
 
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On light aircraft brakes always drag a little.
I’ve never seen or felt wheels turn in flight.
Difficult to draw but it’s not that hard to visualize that faired wheels barely have any air pressure on them because of the air being deflected by the wheel pants.



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