Toutes les vidéos de l'édition : « Landing gears »

• Flybe Bombardier Q400’s crash landing in Amsterdam

  

  A Bombardier Q400 flown by Britain’s low-cost Flybe airline crash landed on 23rd February at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport (Netherlands). The right landing gear collapsed on impact as the plane violently hit the runway, with the twin turboprop skidding several hundred feet. Watch the video without commentary. Read the article to find out more.
   

  

• easyJet: controversial aftermath of diversion

  

  After two failed attempts to land in stormy weather at Toulouse airport on February 5th, an easyJet Airbus A320 diverted to Montpellier. The 180 passengers aboard had to make their own way back to Toulouse at their own expense, creating a controversy. Read the article to find out more.
   

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• Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet performs acrobatic landing

  

  A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter pilot flirted with disaster as he performed an acrobatic landing on the runway at Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport (Russia). Watch the video that needs no commentary. Read the article to find out more.
   

  

• Fighter jet makes spectacular landing – without front landing gear

  

  Landing a fighter plane with no front landing gear – that was the extraordinary feat of a US Navy pilot, who gently posed the nose of his McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier on a special tool designed for this type of emergency. Watch the video without comment. Read the article.
   

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• Aeroflot Airbus A321 veers off runway

  

  An Airbus A321 flying from Moscow to Russia's western city of Kaliningrad veered off the runway just after landing. All 172 passengers and crew members were safely evacuated. Watch the short video without commentary. Read the article to learn more.
   

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• Liebherr-Aerospace: titanium components for Airbus A350

  

  Under increasing pressure to reduce weight and deliver cost savings with ever-lighter aircraft, Liebherr-Aerospace has invested in the manufacture of titanium parts. In its German factory in Lindenberg, the aeronautical equipment manufacturer is producing vital components for the A350’s landing gear.
   

  

• A Spectacular Belly Landing for this Boeing 737

  

  One of Trigana Air Service’s Boeing 737 touched down on the 13th September on its belly without the landing gear, which got ripped off on impact with the runway. No one was hurt but the video is spectacular. Watch the video (no commentary). Read the article.
   

  

• Why retract landing gear just after take-off?

  

  When a commercial airplane takes off, the pilot immediately retracts the undercarriage ; but do you know why? We asked you the question (video), the answer to which you will find in the article.
   

  

• Liebherr-Aerospace converting to electromechanical actuators

  

  Actuators are mechanisms that connect the cockpit controls to various moving parts of the aircraft, thus controlling its movements. Today they are hydraulic, but Liebherr-Aerospace is working on a mini-revolution : electro-mechanical actuators.
   

  

• What is a kiss landing ?

  

  For different reasons, every landing is very different: pilot, weather conditions, etc. Some landings can be hard. Some others are softer. Then, what is a kiss landing. Answer at the end of the video.
   

  

• Why do landing gears have the same lowering and retraction system?

  

  It’s not necessarily obvious, yet all commercial aircraft today are equipped with the same system. After takeoff, their front landing-gear retracts in a forward direction, from the rear, towards the front of the plane, and when landing, lowered in the reverse direction. But why?