Aircraft landing gear with noise reduction front and rear shaped elements
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsJerome Huber, Aline Scotto, Maxime Itasse, Robert Northam
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Abstract
An aircraft landing gear 100 includes a structural main leg 110, having a substantially circular cross-section and defining a front side for facing upstream in use and a rear side for facing downstream in use. The landing gear includes a shaped element 151 attached to an attachment point located on the rear side of the structural main leg. The shaped element extends rearwards from the structural main leg to provide a combined cross-sectional shape of the structural main leg and shaped element that is elongated in the upstream-downstream direction compared to the structural main leg.
Claims16
An aircraft landing gear attached to an aircraft, the aircraft landing gear comprising:
- a structural main leg which is substantially circular in cross-section and defines a front side configured to face in an upstream direction with respect to a flight direction of the aircraft and a rear side configured to face in a downstream direction with respect to the flight direction,
- a front shaped element attached to a first attachment point on the front side of the structural main leg, wherein the front shaped element extends in the upstream direction from the first attachment point, and
- a rear shaped element attached to a second attachment point located on the rear side of the structural main leg, wherein the rear shaped element extends in the downstream direction from the second attachment point on the structural main leg,
- wherein a first combined cross-sectional shape of the structural main leg and the rear shaped element tapers in the downstream direction,
- wherein a second combined cross-sectional shape of the structural main leg and the front shaped element tapers from the structural main leg in the upstream direction, and
- wherein the front shaped element is elongated in the upstream direction as compared to the structural main leg.
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