Steel's Resurgence in Aircraft Brakes
When they were introduced on the McDonnell Douglas F15 fighter and British Aerospace/Aerospatiale Concorde SST, brakes with carbon/carbon rotors demonstrated significant weight reductions below their steel counterparts and promised to double service life. As standard equipment on these early...
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