Evorg's Articles In Pure Technology
March 16, 2006 by Evorg
This little video shows Boeing verifying the crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers design the landing gear system, goes up for a design review, gets manufactured, the maintenance people install it, ops check it, then jack and retract the system; but then Boeing test crews have to actually prove the design. Before the landing gear sideload limits gets etched in stone in the -1 flight manual. So they sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF...