Retractable landing gear for jumbo aircraft

摘要

This invention relates to an improvement in a retractable landing gear for jumbo aircraft, in particular of the high-wing monoplane design, with a number of steerable landing units which are retractable into wells in the aircraft fuselage, the improvement comprising (a) means mounting a plurality of landing gear unit means which are spread into two or more rows that extend predominantly over a range at the aircraft fuselage running in the aircraft longitudinal direction, (b) said landing gear unit means and frames belonging to the airframe structure being designed in the manner of a grid division in which, between two particular unencroached main frames of the structure, a particular landing gear unit of one row is arranged and including means to retract it into well means between the frames, and (c) all landing gear units being made of identical components and being of the same dimensions.