henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/19/88)
In article <434@geovision.UUCP> alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer) writes: >fuel dumping is done for a couple of reasons - to reduce the mass >that the aircraft brakes will have to slow down (sure, they *can* >handle a fully loaded 747 at takeoff speed in case of aborted takeoff, >but it doesn't do the brakes any good)... Aviation Week had an interesting photo a few weeks ago, in fact, of the maximum-weight rejected-takeoff brake tests on the 747-400. A 747, just sitting there at the end of the runway, with its wheel hubs glowing red-hot. -- Sendmail is a bug, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology not a feature. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu