Watch this amazing video of what happens when Boeing wants to make sure the carbon ceramic brakes on its new Boeing 747-8 work under the worst possible conditions. Specifically, Boeing has to simulate the worst possible conditions: a rejected take-off with no reverse thrusters on worn-out brakes. The result? Red-hot 1400C brakes. Yowch!
How A Million-Pound Jumbo Jet Tests Its Brakes
Thursday, May 12, 2011
How A Million-Pound Jumbo Jet Tests Its Brakes
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