Other than spoilers, where are speed brakes located?
- Underneath the fuselage belly near the main landing gear doors.
- Either side of the fuselage or on the wing.
- Mounted on the wing trailing edge inboard section.
Explanation from PART66Online
Speed brakes are surfaces deployed to raise drag without changing lift greatly, slowing the aircraft or steepening the descent. Besides wing-mounted spoilers, dedicated speed brakes are often fitted on the sides or rear of the fuselage. So they may be located either on the fuselage sides or on the wing, depending on the type.
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MridulDev asked · 3 Oct 2012
need F1.
Community Comments (6)
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PART66Online
3 Oct 2012
Speed brake located on the fuselage on the T-45 aircraft: arcair.com/awa01/101-200/awa166-T-45/...
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MridulDev
4 Oct 2012
thank you.
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kabui
6 Apr 2013
Thank you too
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JD2016
11 Sep 2016
How about under wing mounted dive brakes on aircraft like the Douglas SBD Dauntless? Would they not be classed as speed brakes? Also some modern military/naval aircraft have ventral speed brakes (i.e. under the fuselage).
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rwm1273
11 Oct 2016
Boeing aircraft also call their spoilers speed brakes. Outboard spoilers are spoilers, inboard are speed brakes. b737.org.uk/flightcontrols.htm#Spoile...
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DolbyG
26 Aug 2021
why has this question not been updated add bae hawk and long ez to the list of under fuselage speed brakes?
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