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Biggest brakes I've heard of
I was reading online, and I found a brake set from Alcon, in Britian, that is just scary big. Imagine if you will; 400mm front rotors clamped by 12(!!!!) piston calipers, and 380mm rear rotors clamped by 6 piston calipers. The cost for all of this? A mere $16 000 USD. Unfortunately, I haven't found any pictures of the set installed; although, I am still looking. Incidentally, I think it mentioned a minimum of 19 inch wheels.
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Those are for the new AirBuses...
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Sounds like commercial aircraft brakes.
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And yet, apparently, people are putting these on their cars. What's next, clipping the 5 disc carbon carbon brake assembly from a 737 landing gear? Incidentally, my friend works at Goodrich aerospace on the landing gear production line, so he was showing me one, and I thin kthat with some creative engineering, someone could make the multidisc brake system work with probably about 17x8 inch wheels...
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No, hummers will never be able to stop on a dime, not even with those. the 747 air busses are lighter than an H1...
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A Boeing 747 weighs between 339,000 and 870,000 lbs. An H1 is about 7900 lbs...
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A friend of mine is a design engineer at Goodrich Landing Gear Systems, and he took me out on the production floor one night after hours. The brake systems are really compact, I am positive that they could fit under a 17 or 18 inch wheel, it might need to be deeper than 7 inches though. This stems from the fact that many 737-200 airplanes use a 14 and 15inch wheels. Granted many other use 19 and 21inch wheels.
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