How To Use Landing gear In A Sentence
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The plane landed after the landing gear had deployed.
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Also, the lift builds gradually and the weight of the aircraft shifts relatively slowly from the landing gear to the wing.
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When the airplane is clear of the ground, direct the co-pilot to retract and lock the landing gear.
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retractable landing gear
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From the landing gear, a single bracing wire extended into the cowl and was fixed to the motor mount.
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The habitats landed at the base site which will be preselected for trafficability can have wheels attached to their landing gear legs, and then, with the aid of a cable and windlass, be rolled together to be either mated up directly or connected with the aid of inflatable tunnels.
The Case for Mars
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The pilots tried various procedures to loosen the landing gear -- such as jimmying the control lever back and forth, trying the manual release, and G-moves, a series of steep inclines and declines to jostle it loose.
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As the landing gear was being retracted, he felt a slight hesitation and mild backfire with the left engine.
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The center section of the wing, installed beneath the fuselage, carried the two engine nacelles and the retractable landing gear.
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Design consultation and manufacturing of spring aluminum landing gear and aviation composites.
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The landing gear provides for safe take-off and landing on rocking ship decks.
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Realizing that the engine might quit at any point now, he displayed outstanding airmanship by bleeding off excess energy and lowering the landing gear on short final.
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This helicopter is one kind of single belt stroke-oar single shot stands rises machine, uses 2 piece of paddle blades, the tubular runner type landing gear design.
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Two parallel beams between the tail hook and the forward landing gear form the keelson structure which provides structural strength to withstand repeated loading of carrier catapult launches and arrester landings.
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During its investigation the NTSB determined the aircraft underwent extensive maintenance that included the removal, replacement and visual inspection of the left and right main landing gear uplock assemblies.
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Another possibility was a crash on landing caused by failure of landing gear and brakes.
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It is thought the seat of the fire was in the landing gear under the aircraft's main fuselage.
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The landing gear and wing flaps were retracted.
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Emergency floatation units can be installed on the main landing gear fairings and on the forward section of the fuselage.
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Just twelve F7F - 4Ns were built and this variant had a strengthened airframe, stronger landing gear, new radar and arrester gear for carrier operations.
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He ran alongside the main landing gear and attempted to insert a chock under the main tire.
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As it was slowing to a stop, the aircraft shuddered and its landing gear collapsed, propellers digging into the runway.
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Large modern - day aircraft utilizes either bicycle or tricycle landing gears.
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On touchdown, all three landing gears were sheared and the aircraft underside was substantially damaged.
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I accomplish this with a telescopic landing gear.
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A long, slender fuselage was necessary to contain most of the fuel as well as the landing gear and payloads.
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A 777 has a so-called tricycle layout for the landing gear.
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The report concluded that although there was still a problem with the warning system for the landing gear, pilot error rather than mechanical failure was to blame for the crash.
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Since the upper attachment bolt did not engage the uplock assembly, the left main landing gear remained in the up-and-locked position, and did not respond to pilot commands to lower before landing.
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Grumman created Design 7, which was a single-engine biplane amphibian with landing gear that retracted into its large central float.
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Install landing gear ground safety pins, pitot probe covers.
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At touchdown, the platform securely captures the landing gear and then lowers the fighter to the mother ship's backbone.
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The widely spaced landing gear had tight spats around the wheels and tires and was quite streamlined.
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In stand-by configuration, the vehicle's front wheels deploy to the ground like a jet plane landing gear to increase longitudinal stability.
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The violent left yaw became more pronounced as the aircraft slowed and the decreasing lift placed more weight on the landing gear assembly.
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This has caused damage to the landing gear handle, ejection seat headrest, armrests, and other plastic components.
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The trailing-arm landing gear makes every landing a greaser.
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While holding, the loadmaster and flight engineer visually inspected the landing gear and confirmed that the forward right main gear was in the down and locked position while the aft right main gear had partially retracted.
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Among the identical parts are the elevators, landing gear wheels, brakes, retracting mechanism and exhaust collector rings.
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Another consideration is to minimize the drag devices: the landing gear, the flaps and the windmilling propeller.
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Engines, tails, landing gear, bomb-bay doors, wing flaps, and dozens of skin panels are removed.
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The battery door is on the aft end of the sponson that houses the port main landing gear.
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The accident damaged the propeller and both sets of landing gear at the nose and the rear of the plane.
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The buckled fuselage of the aircraft was ablaze in a ditch, the landing gear and one engine torn off, interior compartments melting in the heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the pilot's command, retract the landing gear and raise the wing flaps.
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For now, Boeing executives say they're incorporating drag reducing adjustments like a redesigned red anti-collision light, refinements to control surfaces on the wing and the area around the main landing gear bays.
Boeing's 737 Gets New Look
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Initial drawings showed an aircraft with a tightly cowled radial engine, streamlined fuselage, retractable landing gear and flaps.
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The results would have been devastating if that screwdriver had lodged in the landing gear or in the engine bay of one of our aircraft.
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The BEA in its interim report maintains that the leftward yaw was caused not by incorrectly assembled landing gear but by loss of thrust from the number-one and two engines.
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The aircraft's landing gear grazed the treetops as it landed.
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The controllers instructed Flight 1101 to make a fly-by past the Piarco airport control tower so that they could visually confirm whether the landing gear was down or not.
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UAV, landing gear, engine, mission equipment, fuel systems, environmental control systems are monitoring targets.
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The helicopter has steel tube skid type landing gear.
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Their landing gear gouged huge gashes into the unpaved surface.
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They entered service with engraved foil type recorders, usually fitted in the landing gear bay.
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the retraction of the landing gear
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The 12 wheels on the two main landing gears slammed into the soggy turf about 40 yards beyond the fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The left uplock assembly, upper attachment bolt, nut and cotter pin assembly used to mount the left main landing gear to the structure were installed, but did not engage the uplock assembly.
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Sometimes if we're really worried about the wrath of the travel gods (like the one time we landed in Gatwick and the fire trucks came out on to the tarmack to greet us because the landing gear light was stuck in the "not deployed" mode.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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Post-accident examination of the maintenance performed on the right main landing gear revealed that the top actuator bracket was not of original manufacturer design standards and the repair did not meet manufacturer recommendations; the top actuator bracket was improperly cold-welded to mount instead of being replaced.
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If the ramps were icy, one person had to keep watch to make sure the plane didn't creep ahead even though the main landing gear legs were chocked fore and aft.
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I signaled the plane captain to remove chocks and landing gear pins, looked down to the checklist, looked up again, and saw a thumbs up.
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Video showed the aircraft wallowing through the air at a very low speed - it must be remembered that the landing gear was down.
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The instrument panelmounted crank also actuated the variable camber as the pilot raised and lowered the landing gear.
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In the heat of noon, lions would shelter beneath it, and sometimes elephants and dinotheria would rub their thick hides against the landing gear.
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these would never fly - and, the strut landing gear on the middle body - the orientation is askew, off "kilter" - so would have problems in landing.
Lovell, Photos, and Maquettes
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The accident damaged the propeller and both sets of landing gear at the nose and the rear of the plane.
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There are four main landing gear units fitted in tandem pairs.
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It is thought the seat of the fire was in the landing gear under the aircraft's main fuselage.
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When the airplane is clear of the ground, direct the co-pilot to retract and lock the landing gear.
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This led to a lack of thrust from the engines and both sets of landing gear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Combining optimal control and self-tuning control theory, the adaptive control strategy for semi-active landing gear is proposed.
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Each tank is fitted with a gravity fuelling point and there is a pressure refuelling point in the landing gear fairing on the starboard side.
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Retract flaps and the landing gear to prevent ice accumulation on them.
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The Dowty group will provide twenty five million pounds worth of fuel systems and landing gear for the Tornado.
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Pilot controls consisted of dual wheel yokes and the landing gear was extended and retracted by a hydraulic pump actuated by a hand lever.
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The pilot drew in the landing gear
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The landing gear was hydraulically actuated and was fully retractable.
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The 12 wheels on the two main landing gears slammed into the soggy turf about 40 yards beyond the fence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Snyder and others at this model air show flew their planes via radios, controlling altitude, speed, flaps and landing gear from small hand-held transmitter boxes resembling tricked-out Game Boys.
Earthbound Jet Jockeys Caught in Dogfight With FAA
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The main landing gear, each equipped with two wheels in tandem, is installed in fairings on the underside of the fuselage.
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The narrow landing gear also made it prone to ground looping on landing.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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He set up for a half-flap approach and lowered the landing gear with the emergency system.
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Fibreglass wheel pants were moulded and fitted to the landing gears and fake cowl flaps were attached to a re-worked AT-6 cowling.
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The main landing gear had been sheared off and the nosegear was twisted, bent backwards and jammed into the fuselage aft of the wheelwell.
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The air vehicle is not fitted with conventional landing gear but instead achieves an accurate landing using a parachute and airbags.
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Boeing changed their manufacturing process for landing gear bulkheads to take advantage of the high-speed machining.
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The plane landed after the landing gear had deployed.
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Until seconds before the reassuring clunk of the landing gear, only the aeroplane's shadow skimming across the murky water is visible immediately below.
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Multi-leg landing gear and loading equipment ensure self-sufficient operation of the aircraft on prepared concrete runways and on unpaved strips.
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During overhaul, many landing gear components are completely stripped to replace nickel and chrome plating.
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The aircraft's landing gear grazed the treetops as it landed.
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Design consultation and manufacturing of spring aluminum landing gear and aviation composites.
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Such a landing gear is intended to equip aerodynes and especially helicopters.
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Remarkably the aircraft suffered only a scraped tailskid and three of four tyres burst on the left main landing gear, requiring the tyres and brakes to be replaced.
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There is a whole sequence of events that happens when those pilots take that landing gear handle and retract the landing gear.
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Bounce the plane on one landing gear back into the air and pancake it onto the parallel runway.
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The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents.
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Other flight data, including landing gear position indicators and drag information, indicate that it is unlikely the left landing gear was deployed early.
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Fortunately, the landing gear was already down and locked, but without hydraulics he would not have use of speed brakes or flaps for his return to the field.
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Typically, the way you bring a jet aircraft is what they call a stabilized approach, and if you've done a lot of flying, you probably recall when you got around to the point where the airplane decided it was going to land, it got sort of quiet, and then you heard all these thumps and bumps, and that's putting the slats out on the front end of the wing and the flaps out on the back end of it and dropping the landing gear down.
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