Aircraft landing gear with compression drag brace and fixed truss structure

An aircraft, comprising:

• a wing landing gear;
• a wing landing gear wheel well configured to store the wing landing gear in a stowed position;
• a body landing gear, comprising:
• a shock absorber strut assembly comprising a wheel;
• a fixed truss structure, a drag brace connection member, and an aircraft structure connection point;
• a drag brace;
• and
• a pivot joint that connects the drag brace connection member to the drag brace;
• and
• a body landing gear wheel well configured to store the body landing gear in a stowed position,
• wherein the drag brace comprises an upper drag brace and a lower drag brace,
• the upper drag brace has a first end pivotably attached to a first structural portion in the body landing gear wheel well, and a second end that is pivotably attached to the lower drag brace,
• the lower drag brace has a first end that is pivotably attached to the second end of the upper drag brace, and a second end that is pivotably attached to the pivot joint,
• the drag brace is configured to move between a deployed position and the stowed position,
• the aircraft structure connection point of the fixed truss structure is attached to a second structural portion of the body landing gear wheel well,
• in the stowed position, a longitudinal axis of the upper drag brace and a longitudinal axis of the lower drag brace are in a first relative position in which the longitudinal axes are not colinear, and
• in the deployed position, the longitudinal axis of the upper drag brace and the longitudinal axis of the lower drag brace are in a second relative position that is different from the first relative position.

An aircraft, comprising:

• a wing landing gear;
• and
• a body landing gear, comprising:
• a shock absorber strut assembly comprising a wheel, a fixed truss structure, and an aircraft structure connection point;
• a drag brace;
• and
• a pivot joint that connects the fixed truss structure to the drag brace,
• wherein the wing landing gear has a plurality of wheels that are aligned parallel to a longitudinal direction of the aircraft,
• the plurality of wheels includes a forward-most wheel that is closest to a front of the aircraft,
• the plurality of wheels includes a rearward-most wheel that is closest to a tail of the aircraft,
• in a deployed position of the drag brace, the wheel of the body landing gear is positioned at a body landing gear wheel location,
• the body landing gear wheel location is between the forward most wheel and the rearward-most wheel in the longitudinal direction of the aircraft, and
• the body landing gear wheel location is transversely offset from the plurality of wing landing gear wheels in a transverse direction of the aircraft.