Air Brake

Air brake may refer to the following contexts:

  • Air brake (aircraft), in aeronautics, a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed
  • Air brake (road vehicle), a type of brake used on large vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes, using compressed air
  • Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
  • Airbrake, in skateboarding and longboarding, is a mechanism of increasing wind resistance by spreading out the arms and standing upright. It does not lead one to stop entirely, but it can be employed to reduce speed while retaining stability

Famous quotes containing the word air:

    “I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)