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 ...

“We recently completed New Glenn’s first-stage test of its six landing legs — a key area for reusability, which lowers the cost of access to space,” the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company ...

“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 ...