Braking at Full Speed
Nicolas Gazel (Hispano-Suiza),
Nicolas Huttin (Hispano-Suiza),
Régis Meuret (Hispano-Suiza),
Antonio Prata (Hispano-Suiza),
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Hispano-Suiza, France |
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| 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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