landing gear

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• Harmonization of Airworthiness Standards for Transport Category Airplanes-Landing Gear Retracting Mechanisms and Pilot Compartment View

The Federal Aviation Administration amends the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes on landing gear retracting mechanisms and the pilot compartment view. For the landing gear retracting mechanism, this rulemaking adopts the 1-g stall speed as a reference stall speed instead of the minimum speed obtained in a stalling maneuver and adds an additional requirement to keep the landing gear and doors in the correct retracted position in flight. For the pilot compartment view, this rulemaking revises the requirements for pilot compartment view in precipitation conditions. This action eliminates regulatory differences between the airworthiness standards of the U.S. and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), without affecting current industry design practices.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 1614, January 11, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Transportation Department

• Another Bombardier Jet has Landing Gear Problem

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Two planes made by Canadian manufacturer Bombardier have had to make emergency landings in less than a week because of a landing gear problem. A Skywest Airlines plane landed Tuesday at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee after the cockpit crew reported that only two of the three sets of landing gear would lower. All 36 passengers and three crew members aboard the Bombardier CRJ-200 deplaned safely.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• October 07, 2010

• 14 CFR 23.729 - Landing gear extension and retraction system.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space

• 14 CFR 29.501 - Ground loading conditions: landing gear with skids.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space

• IP Monitor - Bell Helicopter's Certified Landing Gear Does Not Infringe Eurocopter's Patent.

15 Of 16 Claims Of The Eurocopter Patent Also Declared Invalid On January 30, 2012, Justice Martineau of the Federal Court released his decision in ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• 14 CFR 27.501 - Ground loading conditions: landing gear with skids.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space

• '3-D Printed' Plane's Uses Include Public Safety, Agriculture ; Aircraft Is World's First to Take Off and Land On Its Own Landing Gear.

GREEN TWP., Clark County -- Manipulating a remote control device, Jade Lowrey taxied a 5.3-pound airplane along the floor of a 17,000- square-foot aircraft hanger on a recent morning. This was no ordinary model plane. According to engineers at Centerville-based SelectTech Services Corp.'s advanced manufacturing facility, it's the world's first privately funded 3-D printed plane that is able to take off and land on its own landing gear. And it may be just the third 3-D printed airplane in the world, they believe.

• Dayton Daily News
• November 18, 2011

• 14 CFR 29.497 - Ground loading conditions: landing gear with tail wheels.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space

• Plane Arrives in W.Va. Minus Landing Gear

Police at Yeager Airport in Charleston say a small plane touched down with no landing gear, but the pilot escaped injury. The emergency crash-landing occurred around noon Sunday.

• Charleston Gazette
• November 08, 2011

• 14 CFR 27.497 - Ground loading conditions: landing gear with tail wheels.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space