How to Use air brake in a Sentence

air brake

noun

• The plane landed with nearly all engines at idle, air brakes on.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
• Slowing from high speed will be the job of the car's air brake and parachute, both of which are controlled from the steering wheel like the rocket.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• Suspension and air brake aside, the 570S retains the key components that define a McLaren.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2016
• After the plant closure announcement, the air brake tester found a job making dashboards and bumpers for Toyota.
  — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 30 June 2021
• And then there are air brakes on the rail cars, which are triggered without power and are entirely mechanical.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Those angle cocks had come into contact with the underframe of the third train car, closing the valves and rendering the air brakes ineffective.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
• But the car is reassuringly adept at scrubbing speed, reversing course with the DRS and transforming it into an air brake to drag the car back down to a standstill.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2022
• There are active aero flaps in the hood, the front splitter, and the rear diffuser; the articulating rear wing can act as an active air brake; and the car’s underside is completely smooth and flat.
  — Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2018
• The Agil's straight-line performance is likely held back by the substantial rear wing that can shift forward to act as an air brake and apply even more downforce when slowing for a corner.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2023
• Though the show car is designed to have their movement patterns operated via an iPad, they were also imagined as a potential way to scoop air into the car for cooling, act as an air brake or serve as solar panels.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024