The Ultimate Brakeless/Front/Rear/How many brakes? thread

This could be fun, from Dr.Metal's understanding of bicycle brakes what do we think a novel systems architecture would be?

(PhD “Maximizing braking efficiency of commercial jets with novel systems architectures”)

I get the impression he was 'nipped at the post' for research funding, by a collegue/rival that sibmitted the following:

All pasengers and crew members engage the emergencey cranks under their seats, and perform a fixie skidder stop.

Seems bitter about it.