Braking at Full Speed

Author(s):	Nicolas Gazel (Hispano-Suiza),  Nicolas Huttin (Hispano-Suiza),  Régis Meuret (Hispano-Suiza),  Antonio Prata (Hispano-Suiza),
Customer company:	Hispano-Suiza, France
Published:	dSPACE NEWS 2007/1, Feb 2007

As a passenger on an airplane, if you watch the engines closely, you can observe the effect of thrust reversal as it occurs: As soon as the plane touches down, a vent opens in the engine cowl, and some of the air drawn in by the engine is ejected forward to decelerate the plane. To develop the ETRAS^® system on the Airbus A380, Hispano-Suiza, a SAFRAN Group company, used a dSPACE prototyping system. ETRAS^® is a fully electrical system with no hydraulic or pneumatic components – the first ever in passenger planes.

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