So here I am - second plane flight in two weeks, off for work. It's a small plane - one of those ones with a single propellor on each wing.
I'm sitting in the seat that's next to the wing. The pilot I assume is up the front, one foot on the clutch and the other on the brake.
Now these propellors are spinning at what? 20,000 revolutions per minute? And the plane is just sitting there. How on earth is this possible? The chocks have been pulled, and there is all this forward thrust from the props, and yet still the plane doesn't move while the pilot warms the engines up.
What I'm now thinking is, I want these brakes for my car! Can you imagine it? Your doing 140, coming up hard to a hairpin and slam! Brakes on, no drama, now I'm doing 35 in a split second. Sure my eyeballs are now hanging on my face, forced from their sockets, but at least I didn't crash.
And yeah ok the kids have been slammed into the windscreen, torn from their seatbelts, but we made the turn. No doubt there is some government department that would be against is though. You wouldn't think it would be bad to have the best brakes in the world, but I bet they'd be quick to pass a law on aeroplane brakes in cars. After all, trucks have air brakes? It's just one more little step, after all...
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