gear-up configuration
1Gear — For the gear like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating… …
2configuration — A particular combination of the position of the moveable elements, such as wing flaps, landing gear, etc., which affect the aerodynamic characteristics of the airplane (ICAO) …
3Pusher configuration — An aircraft constructed with a pusher configuration has the engine mounted forward of the propeller which faces in a rearwards direction giving an appearance that the aircraft is pushed through the air. Sometimes the propeller is situated at the… …
4Clean configuration — refers to the flight configuration of an fixed wing aircraft when its external equipment is retracted to minimize drag and thus maximize speed for a given power setting. Application For most airplanes, clean configuration means simply that the… …
5Conventional landing gear — The Piper Super Cub is a popular taildragger aircraft …
6Tractor configuration — An aircraft constructed with a tractor configuration has the engine mounted with the propeller facing forwards such that the aircraft is pulled through the air, as opposed to the pusher configuration in which the propeller faces backwards and the …
7Tricycle gear — describes an aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear , arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has one gear strut in front, called the nose wheel , and two or more main gear struts slightly aft of the center of gravity.Several… …
8Engine configuration — is an engineering term for the layout of the major components of an internal combustion engine. These components include cylinders, pistons, crankshaft(s) and camshaft(s).For many automobile engines, the term ´block is interchangeable with engine …
9bicycle gear — noun : a landing gear configuration in airplanes in which the main wheels or sets of wheels are placed under the center of the fuselage to take the main weight of the airplanes and are supplemented by small outrigger wheels under the wings …
10Flight Gear — FlightGear FlightGear Concepteur Curt Olson Début du projet 1996 Licence …
