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Old 4th July 2003 | 04:08
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siddique2
 
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From: Up North
Glue Ball try Indian Airlines????
Also Concorde has a disk brake on the nose wheel live axle for spin down braking prior to retraction.
Regarding the issue of QF B744 Brakes, (another thread) .
A colleague saw a brake fire on one of these on arrival due to the carbon dust catching fire and some surplus grease on the axle...he extinguished it in a few sconds. However it does hi lite the issue of who meets and greets the aircraft? Now usually some one on the minimum wage looking to go home early and not an engineer trained on the aircraft....so you get what you pay for!!
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