The determination of aircraft flotation performance and operations capability on semi- and unprepared soil runways is a critical factor in developing forward area airfields in limited warfare situations. This investigation, which is a part of a continuing effort, was directed at defining landing gear-soil interaction and developing the flotation criteria to permit comparative evaluation of the relative merits of various landing gear configurations. (Author)
Aircraft Landing Gear-Soils Interaction and Flotation Criteria, Phase II
1969
162 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Soil & Rock Mechanics , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Air force operations , Landing fields , Limited war , Trafficability , Flotation , Landing gear , Soil mechanics , Interactions , Aircraft tires , Mobility , Mathematical models , Angle of attack , Shear stresses , Loads(Forces) , Computer programs , California bearing ratio , Cbr(California bearing ratio) , Computerized simulation
Ground flotation requirements for aircraft landing gear
TIBKAT | 1965
|Ground flotation requirements for aircraft landing gear
Engineering Index Backfile | 1965
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NTIS | 1965
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