The first stage is the structural assembly where the sections are fitted, including the landing gear.
The landing gear could not be seen from the sidewalk so commuters rushed by and looked quizzically at the gathering.
Yes, tweaking the landing gear will cause the plane to miss its departure window and maybe even cancel the flight entirely.
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The remains of the shuttle's crew were found near Hemphill, along with the nose, part of the landing gear and much of the cabin.
And so is the landing gear, complete with fully inflated tyres.
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The landing gear was wedged between the back walls of the apartment building and the mosque, which once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.
"If the landing gear had collapsed directly on landing it would have been a much larger incident because the plane is clearly going much faster, " he said.
New York police say what appears to be part of the landing gear of one of the jets flown into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 has been found.
In a statement, Sharif El-Gamal, the president of Soho Properties, which owns 51 Park Place, said workers called the city and the police as soon as they discovered the landing gear.
Another technique for saving money will be to use proven technology already developed for other programs, such as the sensor suite on the new F-35 fighter or the landing gear on the B-2 bomber.
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These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.
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Air traffic control contacted the flight crew and when the captain asked the senior stewardess to inspect the right landing gear area, she was then told of the loss by passengers.
The rusted landing gear piece is believed to be from one of two hijacked airliners that decimated the twin towers in 2001, exploding with fiery debris and killing thousands of people.
The AAIB said that the captain had inspected the right main landing gear before the flight and had not noticed any abnormalities.
This bay sits beneath the flight deck and behind the nose landing gear.
The pilots then use their usual controls to steer with the nose wheel (which in turn steers the TaxiBot) and to brake with the main landing gear.
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Automated functions are intended to be linked with small electric drives attached to the main landing gear, which would provide power to move planes instead of relying on engines that burn expensive jet fuel.
The decision was taken to return to Exeter using the "alternate landing gear extension" procedure.
Flying at 230mph, I eased power and dropped the flaps and landing gear.
Some passengers saw the wheel fall as the plane's landing gear retracted just after take off, but "they did not inform the cabin crew at this point", the report said.
They argued the site was "sacred" because landing gear from one of the hijacked Boeing 767 jets had punctured the roof of the building on Sept. 11.
"The finding of this landing gear, " he said, "just goes to show that we need federal people in here to do a comprehensive, full search of lower Manhattan to make sure that we don't get any more surprises, " as happened in 2007 when body parts were discovered in nearby sewers and manhole covers.
The collection at the New York State Museum in Albany has a large piece of landing gear that went through the roof and landed in the basement of a building next to 51 Park Place.
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Officials in the tower said the plane was too high and did not have its landing gear down as it approached the airport.
The British-based Messier-Dowty unit of French state-owned firm Snecma, would build the Boeing jet's landing gear, a substantial and expensive part of any aircraft.
Similarly, the origins of the microwave oven (an offshoot of radar), the folding baby buggy (the brainchild of a test-pilot inspired by aircraft landing gear) and traffic lights (one of the first of which exploded outside the Houses of Parliament) are not widely known.
The Eclipse's trailing link gear forgives even the ham-fisted landing.
Substantially more complex than previous aircraft, the new plane required the pilot to attend to the four engines, a retractable landing gear, new wing flaps, electric trim tabs that needed adjustment to maintain control at different airspeeds, and constant-speed propellers whose pitch had to be regulated with hydraulic controls, among other features.
The deadliest came in July 1991, when all 261 on board a Nigerian Airways airliner died after its landing gear caught fire shortly after takeoff in Saudi Arabia en route to Nigeria, and the plane went down.
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