I.

For your activity you have to articulate the advantage and disadvantages of
using Tail wheel Gear Type and Tricycle gear Type of Landing gear.

Tail Wheel Gear Type

Advantages Disadvantages

Less expensive to manufacture Generally suffer from poorer forward visibility

on the ground

Less expensive to maintain More difficult to taxi during high wind

conditions

weigh less and cause less drag Due to pilot’s error on handling the breaks,
"nose-over" accidents

Advantageous when operating in and out of

non-paved runways.

Tricycle Gear Type

Advantages Disadvantages

better visibility from the flight deck The nose gear of a few aircraft with
tricycle-type landing gear is not controllable.

More forceful application of breaks Harder to handle on the ground

Prevents ground looping Not as good for rough fields as nose gear can
easily break off because of only one landing
gear in the front

Tricycle gear Type

Advantage Disadvantage

II. Landing Gears Nomenclature:

Base on the given figure in this module for the Landing Gear Nomenclature give the
function and description of each nomenclature.

Landing Gear Nomenclature Function & Description

1. Beam Hanger Is generally a deep timber beam located

 perpendicular at right angles or 90º to ceiling
joists and directly above them. Reduce the
span of the ceiling joists.

2. Main Gear Actuator It is the component in any machine that

enables movement. An actuator is a device
that converts energy, which may be electric,
hydraulic, pneumatic, etc., to mechanical in
such a way that it can be controlled.

3. Ground Speed Brake Cable (Right

Gear Only)

4. Trunnion Link

5. Drag Strut is a structural element (could be a truss)

installed parallel to an applied load that
collects and transfers diaphragm shear forces
to the vertical-force-resisting element or
distributes forces within the diaphragm or
shear wall.

6. Universal Side Strut Fitting

7. Damper Hydraulic Line A damper is a valve or plate that stops or

regulates the flow of air

8. Main Gear Damper

9. Torsion Links The hinged link between the piston and

cylinder of an oleo-type landing gear shock
absorber. The torque links allow the piston to
move freely in and out of the landing gear
cylinder, but prevent it rotating

10. Axie

11. Gravel Deflector Its purpose is to deflect gravel from daging

the parts of landing gear or the

12. Uplock Roller

13. Shock Strut The main objective of the shock absorber is

to absorb and damp the impact energy or
shocks during impact landing or taxiing over
bumps so that minimum gets transmitted to
other airframe parts and the passengers get
utmost comfort

14. Side Strut This is also called a side strut. An overcenter

link is used to apply pressure to the center
 pivot joint in a drag or side brace link. This
prevents the link from pivoting at this joint
except when the gear is retracted, thus
preventing a collapse of the gear during
ground operation

15. Downlock used to lock the nose gear in the down

position whilst the aircraft is on the ground.
This prevents the downlock struct from
folding and in turn, prevent landing gear from
being unlocked from this position.

16. Uplock Spring Bungeer

17. Uplock Actuator

18. Reaction Link

19. Downlock Actuator forces the downlock linkage out of the

overcenter condition, allowing the nose
landing gear to move. The pressure to the
side brace actuator is used to release the
internal downlock, allowing the actuator to
move.

20. Downlock Spring Bungee

21. Walking Beam is conventionally provided for the purpose of

providing mechanical advantage to a
retraction actuator

III. Guided Question

Some of the early aircraft designs use a skid rather than a tail wheel type of landing
gears, why do you think most manufacturers prefer to use skids and what is it that
the tail wheel type has to offer for them to switch with this type of landing gear.