If a plane didn't have landing gear(the wheels and the "legs") it would have to land sliding on its belly. It would be fairly uncomfortable, damage the plane, and on top it would be very hard to reach take off speeds like that.
Attached to a gear are many tires. The tires are used the land the aeroplane. That is why it is called landing gear.
On the Landing gear
It is just called 'landing gear'
1-tricycle gear 2-conventional gear 3-unconventional gear 4-tail wheel landing gear
All of the landing gear on the particular aircraft.
A Boeing 767 aircraft has a total of 10 wheels. Two on the front landing gear, 4 on each of the two main landing gear.
A belly landing is a landing of an aircraft without the landing gear being deployed.
A belly landing is a landing of an aircraft without the landing gear being deployed.
The plane's landing gear is deployed as the plane is descending and nearing the runway.
The SR-71 had tricycle landing gear made of titanium.
Skid type gear.
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