A main landing gear design that placed the wheels flush with the underside of the fuselage when retracted eliminated the need for doors. The low-riding 737. Rob Atherton/Getty Images.

If you're a subscriber, you can read the section about landing gear design on page 410 in the July 1931 issue of Aviation. The full article begins on page 408 where you can see images of autogiros.

“Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to collapse on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023, the National ...

Today on the FRAME, we step inside the detailed production process of aircraft landing gear and tires. From design and stress analysis to forging, machining, and precision assembly, see how ...

In the world of aircraft design, the late 1930s and early 1940s were defined by rapidly-expanding technologies and open minds with which to pursue them. Tricycle landing gear had recently surfaced ...

By 2:12:43 p.m., the moment the right landing gear made contact with the runway, the plane was descending at a rate of 1,098 feet per minute, which is beyond the design capacity of the main ...

Other airport design features have also come under scrutiny. Marco Chan, a pilot and senior lecturer in aviation operations at Buckinghamshire New University, said the choice of a runway with a -0 ...

“Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to collapse on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023, the National ...