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Volume 20, Issue 5
1 May 1948
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| May 01 1948

German Landing Gear Design and Testing: Although prepared at the end of the war, this Report No. 251, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office for the British Intelligence Objectives Sub‐Committee, which was drawn up by Mr P. H. Watson and Mr S. A. Makovski of the R.A.E. Farnborough, contains a considered analysis of German undercarriage ideas that is still of considerable interest

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1948
Aircraft Engineering (1948) 20 (5): 134–150.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031633

THE object of the trip was to ascertain German experience of aeroplane under‐carriages and their methods of design, testing and manufacturing them. Inquiries were also made about their methods of testing wheels for strength.

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