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  • In addition, according to these people, the engine breakup seriously damaged one of the plane ' s hydraulic systems, put a generator out of commission and degraded its anti-skid braking capability.

    Engine Woes to Ding Rolls Earnings Jonathan Buck 2010

  • It defeats the purpose of modern anti-skid brakes.

    What's the Right Way to Teach Teens to Drive? 2010

  • When the situation in Iraq heated up, Washington ordered the Lincoln to return to Fremantle on 6 January 2003, where over the next fourteen days both ship and aircraft underwent heavy maintenance, including ripping up and laying down a new anti-skid flight deck coating.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge. 2009

  • You wouldn't find a steel nozzle above his head or an anti-skid mat beneath his toes, only a handy kitchen stool separating him from the muddy ground below with its neatly trellised vines -- vines which are, oddly, bursting with fruit during this year's drought ...

    sécheresse - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • You wouldn't find a steel nozzle above his head or an anti-skid mat beneath his toes, only a handy kitchen stool separating him from the muddy ground below with its neatly trellised vines -- vines which are, oddly, bursting with fruit during this year's drought ...

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • What United told me today is even kind of more unnerving, is that all of these planes were checked after the work was done, and they have an anti-skid test that they run.

    CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2008 2008

  • You wouldn't find a steel nozzle above his head or an anti-skid mat beneath his toes, only a handy kitchen stool separating him from the muddy ground below with its neatly trellised vines -- vines which are, oddly, bursting with fruit during this year's drought...

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • As I mentioned in my last entry, it's got lots of anti-skid stuff, starting with 4 wheel drive and going on from there.

    October 5th, 2003 vakkotaur 2003

  • It is good that my car has all sorts of anti-skid and such kinds of gadgetry, which has probably kept me out of trouble on those days when it has gotten icy. vakkotaur keeps wondering out loud what I'll do when it gets cold, though...

    October 5th, 2003 vakkotaur 2003

  • The K-model modification consisted of the installation of two J-85-17 jet engines to supplement the two radial piston engines, a modulated anti-skid braking system, and a combination stall warning and angle of attack indicator.

    Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

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