nose-wheel landing gear
1Dash 8 landing gear incidents — Scandinavian Airlines Flight 1209 Accident summary Date September 9, 2007 Type Landing gear failure …
2Conventional landing gear — The Piper Super Cub is a popular taildragger aircraft …
32007 Dash 8 landing gear incidents — Infobox Airliner accident name=Scandinavian Airlines Flight 1209 Date=September 9 2007 Type=Landing gear failure Site=Aalborg, Denmark Fatalities=0 Injuries=5 Aircraft Type=Dash 8 400 (Q400) Origin=Copenhagen Airport Destination=Aalborg Airport… …
4main landing gear — The wheels of a landing gear that support nearly all the weight of an aircraft. Other units are the nose landing gear, tail wheel, and outriggers. Also called a main undercarriage. See also landing gear …
5Landing — is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called landing and touchdown as well. A normal… …
6Wheel-barrowing — is a problem that may occur when an aircraft pilot places excessive forward pressure on the elevator control of a nose wheel equipped aeroplane during the takeoff or landing phase of flight. Forward pressure on the flight controls places an up… …
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… …
8Crosswind landing — A crosswind landing is a landing maneuver in which a significant component of the prevailing wind is perpendicular to the runway center line. Contents 1 Significance 2 Techniques 2.1 De Crab 2.2 Crab …
9three-point landing — noun Date: 1918 an airplane landing in which the two main wheels of the landing gear and the tail wheel or skid or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously …
10three-point landing — /θri pɔɪnt ˈlændɪŋ/ (say three poynt landing) noun a smooth aircraft landing in which the two main wheels of the landing gear and the tail or nose wheel all touch the ground simultaneously …
