Aircraft landing gear is categorized as fixed or retractable, with conventional (tailwheel) and tricycle configurations. Fixed gear may include fairings for improved aerodynamics, while retractable ...
During an approach, an experienced pilot encountered an unexpected landing gear malfunction that required an emergency override to extend the gear. Subsequent flight attempts revealed a continuously ...
The B-2 Spirit aircraft, “Spirit of Georgia,” taxis at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, July 30, 2021. In September, the bomber suffered a mishap due to its landing gear malfunctioning. (Paul ...
Investigators have revealed that the crew of a crashed Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 did attempt to lower the landing-gear during their first approach to Karachi, but raised the gear ...
A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, in 2022 when its left landing gear collapsed, driving its wingtip against the ground and sparking a fire and two explosions.
On the far side of Velizy-Villacoublay air base, tucked away in the undulating landscape of Paris’s southwestern suburbs as the urban sprawl begins to give way to farmland, is a little heralded part ...