Description of Bendix-Perrot wheel brake and its component parts; how torque is to be transmitted to fuselage; wide wheel tread is desirable; reduction in landing run of machines fitted with modern Bendix-Perrot brake was 50 per cent.; fitting of brakes has effect of assisting ground crew; it permits use of tail wheel, instead of skid; servo control necessary. Abstract of paper read before Westland Aircraft Soc. (See also Flight vol. 21, no. 48, Nov. 29, 1929 p. 1266; and Roy. Aeronautical Soc. -- Jl., vol. 34, no. 230, Feb. 1930, pp. 212-213)


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    Title :

    Aero wheel-brakes


    Additional title:

    Aeroplane


    Contributors:
    Hall (author)

    Published in:

    Aeroplane ; 337 , n 22


    Publication date :

    1929


    Remarks:

    1 Fig.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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