Eli5: How do the brakes on commercial aircraft work during landing

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Eli5: How do the brakes on commercial aircraft work during landing

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Basically just likea car’s brakes. Just upscaled quite a lot. If you don’t know how those brakes work, you have a disc that spinns with the wheel and when you want to stop, a pair of non rotating discs/plates press against the spinning disc.

There is also usually some kind of airbrake, which is simply a large flat surface that you hold out in the wind.