Method for operating a landing gear assembly with a breaker strut

A method of operating an aircraft landing gear between a deployed position and a retracted position, the landing gear comprising a leg hinged to the aircraft, the leg being stabilized in the deployed position by a folding strut comprising two hinged-together links, the strut being held in an aligned position by a stabilizer member comprising two hinged-together links, themselves held in alignment by a locking member, the method comprising:

• arranging the strut and the stabilizer member in such a manner that at least one of the links of the stabilizer member moves continuously during a movement of the leg from the deployed position to the retracted position, and
• attaching an operating actuator to said link in order to cause the link to pivot against the locking member and to exert thereon a force tending simultaneously to bring the links of the stabilizer member out of alignment against the locking member, to bring the links of the strut out of alignment, and to move the leg into the retracted position.