The locomotive is fitted with both rheostatic and regenerative braking, in addition to standard westinghouse air brake equipment.
It is used in air brake systems to remotely control the brakes at the rear of a heavy truck or semi-trailer in a tractor-trailer combination.
The wheel brake is applied at the greatest air brake extension.
It is a two-part aileron that can be deflected as a unit to provide roll control, or split open to act as an air brake.
The same conceptual design of fail-safe air brake is also found on heavy trucks.
The propellers went flat, acting as a huge air brake.
During flight tests it was discovered the air brake caused a speed loss of 2 m/s.
He made an emergency application of the train vacuum brake and the locomotive air brake.
