Airman Products gave members of the media their first glimpse of its new Automated Landing Gear Deployment and Retraction Technology during a press conference at the 2020 ATA Technology & Maintenance ...

Stratolaunch's Roc, the world's largest airplane by wingspan, successfully completed its fourth test flight, achieving the critical milestone of fully retracting and extending all landing gear for the ...

A damaged Boeing 757-200 cargo jet operated by FedEx on the ground at the Chattanooga airport in Tennessee after an emergency landing on Oct. 4, 2023. (Photo: FreightWaves Staff) The National ...

British Airways is to speed implementation of a fix to prevent a repeat of the nose-gear retraction incident that damaged one of the carrier’s Boeing 787-8s on the ground at London Heathrow, in the ...

Smiths Aerospace delivered landing gear extension and retraction system flight-test hardware for the Airbus A380. Smiths' work includes design, development, certification support and manufacturing of ...

Russian investigators have described as “unreasonable” a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 crew’s decision to divert to Novosibirsk, having incorrectly estimated the fuel required after failing to take into ...

Aircraft landing gear is categorized as fixed or retractable, with conventional (tailwheel) and tricycle configurations. Fixed gear may include fairings for improved aerodynamics, while retractable ...

Stratolaunch’s Roc airplane files over the Mojave Desert. (NASASpaceflight.com / Stratolaunch via YouTube) Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen a decade ago, ...