Air brake may refer to the following contexts:
- Air brake (aircraft), in aeronautics, a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed
- Air brake (road vehicle), a type of brake used on large vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes, using compressed air
- Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
- Airbrake, in skateboarding and longboarding, is a mechanism of increasing wind resistance by spreading out the arms and standing upright. It does not lead one to stop entirely, but it can be employed to reduce speed while retaining stability
Famous quotes containing the word air:
“I wonder whether mankind could not get along without all these names, which keep increasing every day, and hour, and moment; till at the last the very air will be full of them; and even in a great plain, men will be breathing each other’s breath, owing to the vast multitude of words they use, that consume all the air, just as lamp-burners do gas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)