While searching for the source of some personal misinformation that
JB enlighted me about, I found two video clips of rejected takeoff
tests. One's the 777's, the second the A340.

The first one appears to be from a US Public Broadcasting System show
"NOVA". The A340 excerpt appears to be from a surveillence camera of
some kind.

In either case, the energy shed by the brakes is staggering.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LFErD-yls>

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocxPoUUnIQ>

The 777 appears to come out the better. While its rotors are bright
orange and the rims melt; on the 340, you can see its tires explosively
fail and a wayward wheel rolling away.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:18:55 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
panix.com> wrote:

OzOne writes:

Indeed! Considering a successful test likely cost 0.5E6 Euros or more;
and it could have destroyed the airframe....

You think they would have coordinated everything ahead of time. It's also
a good thing the firefighter was not killed.

It was scary as the dickens watching the tires explode. No fuseable
plugs as on Boeing?

The amounts of power being stored and then shed by those brake rotors
just boggles my mind.