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Volume 25, Issue 8
1 August 1953
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| August 01 1953

The Basic Problem of Undercarriage Geometry: The Definition and Checking of the Pivot Axis about which the Undercarriage Rotates

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1953
Aircraft Engineering (1953) 25 (8): 236–238.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb032324

IF the plane of symmetry of the wheel is the same in both its landing and retracted positions, retraction is achieved by simple rotation about an axis which is perpendicular to the plane of the wheel.

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