Landings are rough on aircraft wheels -- you can probably tell from the noises and smoke alone. How much rubber is left ...

An NTSB report says excessive grinding caused a pin fracture, leading to a rough landing on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023 ...

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 landed on its belly up after a crack in a part of the supports for the nose landing gear kept it ...

Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to ...

With the opening of its new engineering and support centre, Safran Landing Systems continues to make history in Gloucester, ...

Take a (competitive) hike through America's national parks in the excellent 2nd edition of Parks, a board game for 1 - 5 ...

A pair of Amazon package delivery drones were flying through a light rain in mid-December when, within minutes of one another ...

From design and stress analysis to forging, machining, and precision assembly, see how landing gear systems are engineered for strength, shock absorption, and reliability.

This safety design ensures that there is enough fuel ... because "heavy airplanes put more stress on the landing gear," while smaller models are less vulnerable to this. They are often capable ...

An image shared by Kratos on LinkedIn shows what appears to be a Valkyrie airframe resting on internally carried tricycle landing gear. That is significant because the current XQ-58A design does ...