Differential braking ( or braked differential ) systems remove the clutches on the track and add a differential on the transmission output.
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As in all nose-wheel equipped RV aircraft, the nosewheel is free castering and the aircraft is steered with differential braking.
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On early versions the nose wheel steering was by differential braking via two finger-controlled brake handles mounted on the centre console.
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It is equipped with tricycle landing gear : The nosewheel casters freely and steering on the ground is accomplished with differential braking of the main gear.
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Split axles were fixed at the bottoms of the forward lift struts; single wheels were fitted with balloon tyres and had differential brakes for ground steering.
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Differential braking actually predates clutch braking on tracked vehicles, having been initially introduced by Richard Hornsby & Sons in 1905 on the world's first tracked vehicle.
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As in all nose-wheel equipped RV aircraft, the nosewheel is free castering and the aircraft is steered with differential braking, or rudder at higher taxi speeds.
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The ground steering / braking arrangement, especially, takes some adjustment for flyers accustomed to hydraulics, because the aircraft uses differential braking controlled by rudder pedals and a hand operated lever on the control stick.
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Smaller aircraft probably have nose-wheel or tail-wheel steering connected to the rudder controls-but they may not have differential braking . talk ) 04 : 32, 10 February 2009 ( UTC)
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Not all aircraft have steerable wheels, and in some cases steering is solely by means of differential braking ( all Van's aircraft for instance ) or solely by means of the rudder ( including all floatplanes ).
