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Uncommon card · Science
Air brake, an Uncommon card
In aeronautics, air brakes, or speed brakes, are a type of flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase the drag on the aircraft.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Air brake quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Air brake card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
When extended into the ______, air brakes cause an increase in the drag on the aircraft.
Answer
airstream. When extended into the airstream, air brakes cause an increase in the drag on the aircraft. From the Air brake article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Carbonyl group. Carbonyl group 37,000 · Air brake 20,000 · North Kensington 15,000 · Carotid body 12,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- When extended into the airstream, air brakes cause an increase in the drag on the aircraft.
- When not in use, they conform to the local streamlined profile of the aircraft in order to help minimize drag.
- Air brakes differ from spoilers in that air brakes are designed to increase drag while making little change to lift, whereas spoilers reduce the lift-to-drag ratio and require a higher angle of attack to maintain lift, resulting in a higher stall speed.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Air brake article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Air brake
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Air brake (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Adrian Pingstone, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
