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Originally Posted by MTI
Among the carbon brakes' benefits include increasing the lifespan of the brakes to 1,000 landings from a previous 100 landings with the steel brakes, Mr. Hamilton said. The increased lifespan reduces costs of changing out brakes on the aircraft's 18 wheels every 100 landings.
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That's really cool, except for the fact that the KC-135/707 only has 10 wheels.
I think the reporter got confused, as the VC-25/747 has 18 wheels (two extra sets of "bogey" wheels in the rear)...