Handbrake

Tom drove through town with his handbrake on, without noticing it.

Over the next two months, Parker Solar Probe will fly towards Venus, performing its first Venus gravity assist in early October – a maneuver a bit like a handbrake turn – that whips the spacecraft around the planet, using Venus’s gravity to trim the spacecraft’s orbit tighter around the Sun.

Where's the handbrake in this car?

Tom pulls the handbrake.

Tom is pulling the handbrake.

Tom pulled the handbrake.

He pulled the handbrake.

The handbrake lever was just behind the gearstick.

Is the handbrake on?

On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.