Two-stage aircraft landing gear

Details Two-stage aircraft landing gear Two-stage aircraft landing gear

1986-09-30

1988-09-13

Barefoot, Galen

Aeronautics and astronautics

Landing gear

Retractable

244104FP, B64C 2510

Patent

active

047703725

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.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2731218 (1956-01-01), Bonar
patent: 2732152 (1956-01-01), Neilson et al.
patent: 2856180 (1958-10-01), Westcott, Jr.

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