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Answer for the clue "Bus stopper ", 8 letters:
airbrake
Alternative clues for the word airbrake
Word definitions for airbrake in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
airbrake \airbrake\ n. 1 a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft. Syn: dive brake a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles. Same as air brake . Syn: air brake [WordNet 1.5] n. 1. an ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft [syn: dive brake ] a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A brake (slowing device) that is operated pneumatically (by air pressure). 2 A moving part of an aircraft wing to reduce lift and airspeed.
Usage examples of airbrake.
Jakdall's car popped open its airbrake louvers and landing gear, reversing thrust, pulling in for a speed landing.
Simultaneously, Martin raised the airbrakes to maximum up and dropped the gear.
Spoilers and airbrakes and landing gear doors and landing gears began to spring out of nowhere out of the bomber's huge frame, and the distance between the two planes was chopped to nothing in the blink of an eye.
Carter pulled the Megafortress's eight throttles to 70-percent power, waited for fifty knots of airspeed to bleed off, raised the airbrakes, then tipped the Megafortress into a steep 70-degree right bank, keeping forward pressure on the control stick but keeping the long, pointed 5ST-style nose on the horizon.
The JS-7 pilot threw his fighter into a steep left turn and pushed the nose down, using his airbrakes judiciously to avoid ripping his PL-7 and PL-2 missiles from their pylons.
He used a few notches of airbrakes to slide back and ease into a comfortable position on the A-5's right wing, but he immediately edged away from the fighter-bomber in a momentary panic when he thought he was getting sucked in too close.
The Stuka, airbrakes at maximum depression, had steadied on the centre of the grove.
Airbrakes unfold from the trailing edges of the pods delta wings, taking hold of the air in a shrieking, shuddering deceleration.