Aircraft landing gear having an independent low-noise fairing system

Aircraft landing gear having a retractable leg, in which the leg comprises a strut with a telescopic rod, the strut being hinged to a structure of the aircraft in order to pivot between a gear-up position and a gear-down position under drive from an associated actuator, said strut also being connected to the structure of the aircraft via hinged brace means, which comprise a brace having a top arm hinged by a first binge to the structure of the aircraft and a bottom arm hinged by a second hinge to an appendix associated with the strut of the landing gear leg, wherein the landing gear further includes an independent low-noise fairing system that serves, when the leg is in the gear-down position, to cover the front of at least a portion of a third hinge between the top and bottom arms of said brace, said independent low-noise fairing system comprising a hinged fairing of two complementary portions connected to each other via a fourth hinge whose axis is parallel to the axis of the corresponding hinge portion of said brace means, in which a first portion is secured to the bottom arm of the brace and a second portion is connected to the top arm of said brace;

• wherein, in the gear-down position, the first portion of the hinged fairing covers the bottom portion of the bottom arm of the main brace, the top portion of said bottom arm and the bottom portion of the top arm of said brace being covered by the second portion of said hinged fairing;
• wherein, in the gear-down position, the two complementary portions of the hinged fairing lie substantially in line one with the other.