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landing gear
noun
- the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
landing gear
Word History and Origins
Origin of landing gear1
Example Sentences
The bird-legged bot also opens up possibilities for an adaptable landing gear that can lessen the need for landing strips and helicopter pads.
In one video, at least a dozen people were on top of landing gear hatches as the aircraft accelerated down the runway.
They seemed to have been heard when I felt the impact of the landing gear on the wet runway.
Autoland takes over from there—choosing an airport, physically flying the plane, and lowering the landing gear at the right time—to bring the vehicle down safely.
With the main landing gear gone, the right engine, still attached to the wing, was severely damaged.
The crew would not normally be aware of a landing-gear problem until they were on final approach.
Hydraulic pressure is involved not only in lowering the landing gear but in controlling the airplane.
Donto recalled flying to Denver with his mother and they were informed the landing gear had malfunctioned.
It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.
Someone tampered with the pointer of the instrument and all but drained the gas containers when they wrecked the landing gear.
This time it struck one of the Lhari grazingly with landing gear and knocked him sprawling.
Harris himself was in the bottom of the plane, in the baggage section near the landing gear.
To strike this spar would entail danger of a crash, or having their landing-gear torn away, which would prove a disaster.
The landing gear must have torn off some of the fusilage when it hit.
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