Aeronautics and astronautics – Landing gear – Wheel
Patent
1988-06-17
1989-09-26
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Landing gear
Wheel
280707, B64C 2522
Patent
active
048694444
ABSTRACT:
A two-stage aircraft gear. The landing gear includes a cantilever landing gear whose lower end is attached to a trailing arm (or articulated) landing gear. The cantilever gear is a collapsible piston-cylinder assembly, and the trailing arm gear also has a shock absorber connected between a fixed portion of the trailing arm gear and the movable wheel support arm. When landing, the load imposed is first absorbed by the trailing arm landing gear. After the trailing arm gear has been fully compressed, the cantilever gear begins to compress. The cantilever and trailing arm landing gear can be combined to provide the desired performance. The landing gear static position can be designed to be in the static load curve of the first component, allowing the aircraft to be stably supported and yet difficult to overturn. Adjustable orifice plates contained within one or both of the cantilever and articulated stages can be controlled as a function of the vertical descent velocity and/or distance. If desired, differential pressure measurements within the two stages can be used to give the landing gear any desired damping and/or landing gear extension characteristic.
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Barefoot Galen L.
The Boeing Company
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