Taxi performance in terms of airplane CG acceleration for the KC-135, T-43A, and YC-14 type main gear are calculated with a digital simulation. Simple landing gear oleo modifications, such as bypass orifices and dual stage air chambers, are proposed and evaluated and reduce CG (RMS) acceleration by as much as 47%. Improved taxi performance also results in reduced gear loads when bomb crater repair patches are encountered with the KC-135 and YC-14 type gear. Fatigue damage due to taxi on austere fields decreases by 6% or more. However, fatigue damage due to taxi on prepared fields is not affected by the proposed oleo modification. (Author)
Adaptive Landing Gear for Improved Taxi Performance
1977
78 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Aeronautics , Landing gear , Taxiing , Performance(Engineering) , Fatigue(Mechanics) , Center of gravity , Digital simulation , Mathematical models , Taxiways , Runways , Surface roughness , Dynamic loads , Jet transport planes , Jet training planes , Damping , Struts , C-135 aircraft , C-14 aircraft , T-43 aircraft , KC-135 aircraft , YC-14 aircraft , T-43A aircraft
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