The Boeing 777’s 14-tire main landing gear may seem excessive at first glance, but it’s a highly calculated engineering ...

T he Airbus A330 is one of the most dynamic aircraft to have entered service. Balancing the long-range capabilities of a massive intercontinental widebody with the nimbleness of a ...

Brazilian investigators have revealed that a ATR 42-300 landed with its undercarriage retracted despite each pilot's ...

The 'DOWN' position of the landing gear lever indicates that the aircraft's landing gear is fully deployed and secured in place. This setting is standard during takeoff and landing phases, providing ...

CAMX 2025: The Aramis system by Trilion, based on DIC and photogrammetry technology, performs high-precision measurements in the sub-micrometer range, ... Carbon fiber/flax landing gear achieves 54% ...

US investigators have determined that a broken wire prevented activation of the alternate undercarriage extension system on a FedEx Boeing 757-200 freighter, forcing the crew to conduct a gear-up ...

The plane was traveling about 143 knots as it got to the runway. That’s about 13 knots too fast for the warning system in the jet to signal the pilot that the landing gear had not engaged, said ...

A FedEx plane landed with its landing gear up, skidding off the runway in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2023 after a leak in a hydraulic hose caused the system to fail and a broken wire kept the ...

The plane was traveling about 143 knots as it got to the runway. That’s about 13 knots too fast for the warning system in the jet to signal the pilot that the landing gear had not engaged, said ...