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Pages in category "Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear (403 P) Pages in category "Aircraft with fixed landing gear" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Jost Werke SE (proper spelling: JOST Werke SE) is a manufacturer of systems for commercial vehicles based in Neu-Isenburg, Germany. [1] Jost Werke is a leading international manufacturer and supplier for the trucking industry. The company focuses on the manufacture of safety-related systems for tractors, semi-trailers and trailers.
The landing gear represents 2.5 to 5% of the maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) and 1.5 to 1.75% of the aircraft cost, but 20% of the airframe direct maintenance cost. A suitably-designed wheel can support 30 t (66,000 lb), tolerate a ground speed of 300 km/h and roll a distance of 500,000 km (310,000 mi) ; it has a 20,000 hours time between overhaul and a 60,000 hours or 20 year life time.
Several early aircraft had primitive tricycle gear, notably very early Antoinette planes and the Curtiss Pushers of the pre-World War I Pioneer Era of aviation. Waldo Waterman's 1929 tailless Whatsit was one of the first to have a steerable nose wheel. [3] In 1956, Cessna introduced sprung-steel tricycle landing gear on the Cessna 172. Their ...
An oleo strut is a pneumatic air–oil hydraulic shock absorber used on the landing gear of most large aircraft and many smaller ones. [1] This design cushions the impacts of landing and damps out vertical oscillations.
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term taildragger is also used.
English: Landing gear of an aircraft, schematic view of the retracting mechanism. Filled circles are fixed relative to the airframe. Coloured arcs denote the locus of points. 1 Hydraulic Ram 2 Hinge Mechanism 3 Strut 4 Wheel Boss 5 Wheel . 6 Fuselage/Wing