Spoilers and speed brakes

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

1. Introduction to flight controls
2. Aircraft axes and motions
3. Classifying flight controls
4. Primary flight controls
5. The ailerons
6. The elevators
7. The rudder
8. Secondary flight controls
9. Flaps
10. Slats and leading edge devices
11. Spoilers and speed brakes
12. Trim tabs and balance tabs
13. Methods of operating flight controls
14. Cables and pulleys
15. Rods, bellcranks and quadrants
16. Hydraulic control systems
17. Fly-by-wire control systems
18. Cockpit controls
19. Balancing control surfaces
20. Actuators and servo tabs
21. Modelling a control system
22. The role of flight controls