Most planes fly with their landing gear and wheels fully retracted, but Boeing's 737 still has its wheels exposed when it's ...

T he Airbus A330 is one of the most dynamic aircraft to have entered service. Balancing the long-range capabilities of a ...

Conventional metallic landing gear relies on elastic deformation to dissipate energy and plastic deformation to create a controlled failure mechanism. This well-established design approach enables the ...

A fatigue fracture from improper maintenance caused an Alaska Airlines' landing gear failure during a 2023 flight, NTSB investigators revealed in a report.

“Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to collapse on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023, the National ...

New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches The RAVEN walks, it flies, it hops over obstacles, and it's efficient. Jacek Krywko – Dec 5, 2024 6:34 pm | 57 ...