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What comes up must go down

A lighthearted look at aircraft undercarriages through the ages.

Grant Newman Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Wheels: universally despised by aircraft designers but a necessary feature of modern aircraft. This is, like the helicopter, another thing universally despised by aircraft designers but proven to be really useful, although ironically for many years aeroplanes didn’t have wheels at all.

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Grant Newman Fri, 11 Feb 2022
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