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8 July 1992. The Bede BD-10 was Jim Bede 's attempt to introduce the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation supersonic aircraft. [1] After several years of testing and modifications, the project was taken over by investors in order to produce fully completed civilian and military training aircraft, but these projects were never ...
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 ...
James R. Bede (April 17, 1933 – July 9, 2015) was an American aircraft designer and developer, particularly noted for his development of influential, fast, efficient, light aircraft, including his BD-1 (forerunner of the Grumman-American line [1]), and the BD-4, [2] BD-5 [3] and BD-10 [4] kitplanes. He designed well over a dozen aircraft ...
10 wheels [1x2]+[2x4] A Boeing 757-200 from British Airways: 777: 14 wheels [1x2]+[2x6] A Boeing 777-200 from United Airlines. Using 6-wheel bogies, instead of the common 4-wheel bogies (reminiscent of earlier generation Tupolev Tu-154), was visionary for contemporary aircraft at the time of the design of the 777: B-52 Stratofortress
The Bombardier Challenger 300 is a 3,100-nautical-mile (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) range super mid-sized business jet designed and produced by the Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace. Development of the aircraft, originally called the Bombardier Continental, begun during the late 1990s and was formally launched at the 1999 Paris Air Show.
Bede Aircraft Corporation was founded by aeronautical engineer Jim Bede in Cleveland in 1961 to produce the BD-1 kit aircraft, which eventually became the American Aviation Corporation's AA-1. The company also created and produced a number of advanced kit planes including the famous Bede BD-5 ( pusher propeller driven) and BD-5J (turbojet driven).
Yokohama Advan racing tires. The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited (横浜ゴム株式会社, Yokohama Gomu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Hiratsuka, Japan. [1] The company was founded and began on October 13, 1917, in a joint venture between Yokohama Cable Manufacturing and BFGoodrich. In 1969, the company ...