As you'll see in that part of the third taxi test, I lost the brakes. As I'm taxing off the runway I noticed that there was smoke coming out of both the left and right sides. At the time, I really wasn't sure what caused the brakes to get so hot. But, after watching the video a couple of time and recalling back to what I was doing, I'm postive that I was dragging the brakes on those down-wind trips. I even remember thinking at one point, "oh, I'm riding the brakes". Doesn't seem like they should get so hot as to start smoking, but perhaps it was a combination of being new, over worked, and a bit of brake fluid leaking out and hitting the discs. Anyway, my comment at the end of the video is kind of funny. It wasn't at the time, mind you... :-)
25 апр 2010
