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Airplane brakes... Posted by Larry West [Email] (#1140) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Larry West) on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:46:53 In Reply to: Sounds like a dangerous set up., R. Frist, Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:24:45 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I've never seen a tricycle-gear airplane with brakes on the sole front wheel. I've flown Cessnas, and flown in Pipers, worked on & flown in Coast Guard Grumman HU-16s, and Falcon HU-25s, and always the brakes were on the rear wheels. On most planes, if you did brake the front wheel, you'd break the whole strut off the plane...
So-called "Conventional" landing gear airplanes (aka "tail draggers") always have the brakes on the two forward wheels, not the tiny rear wheel.
In both cases, the main reasoning is that the "main" landing gear has a wide stance, is much more heavily constructed to take the landing weight, and, if the plane does not have nose wheel steering, you are steering (at least partially) by differential braking.
Automobile brakes and aircraft brakes, while performing the same function, are engineered to handle completely different situations.
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