How Good Are Your Brakes?

777 and 747 brakes are pretty impressive, been working Functional Test on the 787 for about 8 months. The 787 uses completely different systems.

Its really a flying computer/electrical power plant. One of the reasons its late, troubleshooting systems when they have a issue. No bleed air systems, the reason why the engines get better fuel economy.

It has 4 Electric Motor Pumps, generating 5000 PSI for the hydraulics, these are driven by 3 generators, making 480 Killiwatts apiece, enough to run a few houses for a while.

The brakes on the 787 are electric too, working off of 280 Volts 3 phase DC, we killed the power supply to the aircraft external power systems for the whole building once by trying to run the EMP's and the brake test at the same time.

But wanna see something really cool aircraft wise??? google or YouTube videos of crosswind landings, or aircraft landing at Princess Julianna airport in St Maarten