Wheels, Too

Powered aircraft wheels for taxiing efficiency, proposed by several correspondents, overlook the braking requirements for current airline equipment. Engineers have exhausted pad material and rotor technologies to squeeze enough brake capacity in all the wheel hubs to meet Refused Takeoff stopping...

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