APPH is British engineering company, and the only British-owned company capable of providing complete landing gear (undercarriage) systems for aircraft.
Of all-metal construction (with a fiberglass nose section on the fuselage), it was fitted with fixed tricycle undercarriage and accommodated the pilot and three passengers under a bubble canopy.
There have been attempts at employing central tire inflation system on aircraft landing wheels (notably on the Soviet Antonov An-22 military transport) to improve their preparedness for unpaved runways.
Floatplanes have often been derived from land-based aircraft, with fixed floats mounted under the fuselage instead of retractable undercarriage (featuring wheels).
It was a single-seat ultra-light aircraft and was fitted with a fixed tricycle undercarriage.
As the crew attempted to extend the gear for landing, they encountered difficulties, since hydraulic power to the landing gear in that aircraft was normally supplied by the two right side engines, now shut down.
However, just at the beginning of a rally over Europe, on 7 August 1929, he broke undercarriage and propeller and was disqualified.
The aircraft was fitted with high-set wings which were supported by twin struts, a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and a single seat for the pilot owner.
They are also used for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage.
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The undercarriage main axle was carried at the bottom end of the kingpost with wheels at either end and bearing ash fore and aft skids.
It was an all-metal, twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, and armed with three flexible machine guns, one each in the nose, dorsal turret, and ventral gondola.
While the Carvair was making a visual approach to Rotterdam Airport in conditions of snow with 1,460m visibility, the landing gear struck a 6 feet high dyke, 800 ft short of the runway threshold.
It then began a descent-to-landing along the roughly 3.8-degree glideslope to a specially prepared runway on the east side of Rogers Dry Lake, with the landing gear remaining retracted.
It was followed in 2007 by the Tsikada-M or Sky Wind 1 which had more powerful Jabiru engines and modifications to the fuselage and cabin, the undercarriage and the control systems.
of Composition B planted behind the instrument panel and directly on the landing gear lowering mechanism.
The Lancair Legacy, a modernized version of the Lancair 320, is a low-wing two place retractable-gear composite monoplane, manufactured by USA company Lancair.
It had a fixed landing gear with a tail skid and could be powered by a nose-mounted 32 hp Bristol Cherub II engine or a 35 hp Blackburne Thrush radial piston engine.
The Catch-22s budget could only accommodate 17 flyable B-25 Mitchells, and an additional non-flyable hulk was acquired in Mexico, made barely ferry-able and flown with landing gear down to the Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico filming location, only to be burned and destroyed in the landing crash scene.
On 1 November 2011 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016, a Boeing 767, declared an emergency with a loss of landing gear en route from Newark Liberty International Airport to Warsaw Chopin Airport.
The nose and left main landing gear then collapsed and the aircraft slid over the parallel taxiway and into Kowloon Bay.
United Airlines Flight 173 crew was making an approach to the Portland International Airport on the evening of Dec 28, 1978 when they experienced a landing gear abnormality.
CRM grew out of an NTSB analysis of the crash of United Airlines Flight 173 where the plane ran out of fuel while the flight crew were troubleshooting a landing gear problem.
:Prototype with retractable landing gear and powered by a 165 hp (121 kW) Continental IO-346A piston engine, one built.
Changes were made to the engine cowling and baffling to reduce cooling drag, the exhaust system was redesigned, the main landing gear fairings were further improved, the ventral fin was deleted and the horizontal tail was enlarged to allow a larger center of gravity range.
Kingfisher (Cui-Niao or Cuiniao, 翠鸟) UAV developed by Hanhe Aviation is a gasoline-powered unmanned helicopter in conventional helicopter layout with a pair of skids as landing gear, and it is specifically developed for aerial surveillance missions.
There was not sufficient fuel to reach Munich, however, as the FMS was not designed to take into account the extra drag produced by a half-raised landing gear.
Taking off for another sortie from Csór that day, one of the landing gear struts hit a truck killing him in the accident.
French manufacturer Messier produced, to the Yugoslavian specification, the complete hydraulics equipment and landing gear.
On November 14, 1927 the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale started its operations in Brazil flying between Natal and Buenos Aires, with multiple stops on the Brazilian coast, using aircraft with landing gear having as pilots Jean Mermoz, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Henri Guillaumet among others.
On April 6, 2005, about 14:35 Alaska daylight time, a twin-engine Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander airplane, N29884, sustained substantial damage following a main landing gear component failure and subsequent loss of control while landing at the Klawock Airport, Klawock, Alaska.
The Apollo Lunar Module used a rocket and landing gear to land on the moon.
Another LC-130F crashed in Victoria Land in late 1971 when the nose landing gear collapsed following a JATO malfunction during an open field takeoff.
Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on 15 January 2009, stated that this might have been the first emergency in a 767 where all 3 landing gear had failed.
On 27 November 1984, a Beechcraft Baron 58, registration VH-ETV, operating a charter flight to the airport, suffered a left landing gear failure and was substantially damaged.
Supermarine Seafire F Mk. XVII; a Royal Navy fighter with reinforced wings and modified landing gear
Querétaro: manufacturing of major landing gear components for: A320 main landing gear fitting, A330 main landing gear bogie beam and B787 nose landing gear inner cylinder.
On May 8, 1927, the aircraft took off from Le Bourget, jettisoned its main landing gear (which is stored at the museum), which it was designed to do as part of its trans-Atlantic flight profile, but then disappeared over the Atlantic.
The museum housed more than 120 components including a Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engine, a Snecma twin intake, control columns, seats and the left landing gear.
B.F. Goodrich would only be used after Mercury for the production of the landing gear tires for the Space Shuttle, but this has since been done by Michelin.
In 1934 Otto and his brother Wally Timm joined to form a new company named the Timm Airplane Company to produce the Timm T-S140, a high wing twin engine aircraft using new features developed at NACA such as flaps and tricycle landing gear.
On November 17, 2011 a Bek Air Fokker 100 operating as flight BEK-2011 from Almaty to Uralsk made an emergency landing in Uralsk after a go-around having a landing gear and cargo door failure alerts.
The prototype Sprite, named the Pilot Sprite, was designed by a team at Loughborough University and had little in common with Garrison's design, though both were all-metal side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplanes with tricycle landing gear.
After retiring to Marrowstone Island in Washington State, he worked on the development of new models for Express Aircraft, including retractable landing gear and turbine powered variants.
The Aiglon is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a fixed tricycle landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 180hp (134kW) Lycoming O-360-A3AD or a Lycoming O-360-A3A engine.
It was an-unequal span biplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 120hp (89kW) Beardmore engine driving a four-bladed propeller.
The S.210 was developed from the single-engined S.205 and was an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear.
Although the aircraft did not sell, the experience was used in the tailwheel landing gear NC.850.
They are often used in larger helicopters where the internal space of the sponson can be used for fuel or to house landing gear without reducing cargo or passenger space in the fuselage as, for example, with the Sikorsky S-92 and the Bell 222.
Depending on preference, skill and the surface of the field, the 182 can be built with tricycle landing gear and steerable nosewheel per the prototype or as a taildragger less the nosewheel in the style of the Cessna 180.
:Later production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine or can be retrofitted with a Rotax 914, hydraulically operated landing gear, double panel Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on the upper wing surface.
An improved four-seat Taifun 11S was studied with a 115hp (86 kW) Lycoming O-235 engine and fixed landing gear but the design was abandoned.
In Transformers: The Reign of Starscream #4 Arcee returns to Cybertron from Mars by hiding in the landing gear of Starscream's ship.
For example, a Sopwith Camel biplane of World War I which had many wires and bracing struts as well as fixed landing gear, had a zero-lift drag coefficient of approximately 0.0378.