Raisable landing gear

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1993-02-19

1993-11-23

Huppert, Michael S.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Landing gear

Retractable

244102A, 244102SL, B64C 2510

Patent

active

052636640

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to raisable landing gear having a shock absorber strut and a sliding rod. According to the invention, the landing gear includes a lateral stabilizer hinged to the strut and fitted with a wheel at its free end, together with mechanical coupling means associated with said lateral stabilizer, in such a manner that: firstly lowering the landing gear deploys the lateral stabilizer so that its wheel, when the landing gear is in its lowered position, provides support additional to that provided by the wheels of the wheel set, and also constitutes a lateral stabilizer proper during taxiing of the airplane; and secondly raising the landing gear folds the lateral stabilizer so as to enable the entire landing gear assembly to be housed when in the raised position. It then becomes possible to organize the landing gear beneath the fuselage of the airplane, thereby making it possible to obtain landing gear that is extremely short.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2454611 (1948-11-01), Paraskevas
patent: 3188026 (1965-06-01), Perdue et al.

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