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Changing a wheel on a Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft Tires on the wheels of a bogie on a Boeing 777. An aircraft tire or tyre is designed to withstand extremely heavy loads for short durations. [1] The number of tires required for aircraft increases with the weight of the aircraft, as the weight of the airplane needs to be distributed more evenly.
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres was established in 1910 as part of Dunlop Ltd. (formally Dunlop Rubber), which itself had been founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. It was Dunlop Ltd., the original company, who designed the brakes for Concorde and had also invented Maxaret , the world's first anti-lock braking ...
Tire balance measurement is a test where the tire is automatically placed on wheel halves, rotated at a high speed and measured for imbalance. Large commercial truck/bus tires, as well as some passenger and light truck tires, are inspected by X-ray or magnetic induction based inspection machines, that can penetrate the rubber to analyze the ...
Bridgestone Aircraft Tire (USA) is a manufacturer of aircraft tires as well as retread servicing. Bridgestone Americas Holdings announced in May 2006 that it would be moving its Miami, Florida aviation operation to its new 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2 ) facility located in Mayodan, North Carolina , this move is expected to be completed by ...
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, a company in Birmingham, England (sold by BTR in 1996; 75% of stack was sold to AAC Capital Partners. [12] AAC sold company to Liberty Hall Capital Partners for $135 Million). [13] Dunlop Aerospace, including Dunlop Equipment and Dunlop Precision Rubber, owned by Meggitt plc [14] (the result of a sale by BTR in 1998).
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With wide-ranging concerns about the viability of traditional natural-rubber plantations, Bridgestone looks to an alternative source: native guayule.
The tire, usually made of steel, surrounds the wheel and is primarily held in place by interference fit. Aircraft tires may operate at pressures that exceed 200 pounds per square inch (14 bar; 1,400 kPa). [60]