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Printable version; In other projects Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear" The following 200 pages are ...
A Boeing 747-400's main landing gear. Note the toes-up bias angle of the bogies on the wing gear, to ensure correct stowage upon retraction: 707, 720, 757, 767, 787: 10 wheels [1x2]+[2x4] A Boeing 757-200 from British Airways: 777: 14 wheels [1x2]+[2x6] A Boeing 777-200 from United Airlines.
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.
The landing gear is of conventional configuration, with bungee-sprung main gear and a steerable tailwheel. [3] [5] The initial engine recommended for the design was the now out-of-production 28 hp (21 kW) Rotax 277. Recommended engines today include 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 and the 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503. Kit options include brakes, an extra 5 ...
Jet aircraft generally cannot use conventional landing gear, as this orients the engines at a high angle, causing their jet blast to bounce off the ground and back into the air, preventing the elevators from functioning properly. This problem occurred with the third, or "V3" prototype of the German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. [5]
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear (534 P) Pages in category "Aircraft with conventional landing gear" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Pages in category "Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 535 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...