On the Landing gear
All of the landing gear on the particular aircraft.
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.
Prior to the LANDING of the aircraft to which it is attached.
The wheels along with the system is called Landing Gear. The Landing Gear can be retracted soon after take-off. Stationary landing gears slow the aircraft down.
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A C-130 Hercules aircraft has a total of 12 wheels. This includes 4 main landing gear wheels, 2 nose gear wheels, and 6 additional wheels located on the main landing gear for added support and stability during takeoff and landing.
Aircraft configuration can mean either the state of the flaps and landing gear or the layout of the cabin.
The ground safety switch, often referred to as a weight-on-wheels (WOW) switch, is a critical component in an aircraft's landing gear system. Its primary function is to prevent certain systems, such as the landing gear retraction mechanism, from operating when the aircraft is on the ground. This ensures that the landing gear remains extended during ground operations, enhancing safety by preventing inadvertent gear retraction. Additionally, it helps in activating other systems only when the aircraft is airborne.
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When the landing gear retracts, it is very important for aerodynamics that they retract into the body of the aircraft as much as possible. However, placement of the landing gear depends ultimately on factors such as the aircraft's center of gravity, its weight, its possible fuel load and much more, there may not be a good locaction in the aircraft for the wheels to rectract fully without some kind of articulation. As a result, aircraft designers often must come up with some pretty interesting solutions to enable to landing gear to be retracted fully into a space that is otherwise unused in the aircraft. Often in order for the landing gear to retract into its well, the wheel trucks may have to be rotated or pivoted. Large aircraft in particular often have multiple wheels for each of the landing gear. It is particularly difficult to design a retraction system for these as the wheel trucks may be very large and ungainly. Some large aircraft have the ability to pivot the landing gear to one direction or another for landing. This is done to increase the aircraft's capacity to land in cross-winds. In a strong cross-wind the aircraft may not be able to land gracefully pointed straight down the runway, and so the landing gear may be off-set one direction or another to allow the aircraft to land with a slight crab-angle.
The function of a mechanical downlock indicator used on an aircraft's landing gear enables the pilot to have a visual indication that the landing gear is down and locked, which means that the aircraft can land safety. Normally, the indication on the cockpit is via 3 green lights near the landing gear control handle. There is a pair of electrical contacts that closes when the aircraft's landing gear extends to an angle that is beyond the over-centre of the linkages which then completes an electrical path to light up the landing gear control handle's green light to indicate gears down and locked.