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Aircraft Maintenance Practice Test: Landing Gear
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The landing gear, also called the undercarriage, is the primary support for an aircraft when it's parked, taking off, taxiing, or landing. It's designed to absorb and dissipate the kinetic energy of landing impact, reducing the impact loads transmitted to the airframe.  Landing gear consists of a complex system that includes: Structural members, Hydraulics, Energy absorption components, Brakes, Wheels, Tires, Steering devices, Retracting mechanisms.  The most common type of landing gear is wheels, but airplanes can also have floats for water operations or skis for landing on snow.  The... Show more
Aircraft Maintenance Practice Test: Landing Gear
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1. Which of the following is used to fill tires of commercial aircraft, in order to prevent internal combustion of the tire?
2. The Boeing 747 aircraft has ___________ different sets of wheels.
3. Which of the following is the compartment where the wheels are stowed in a retractable landing gear system?
4. Which of the following controls the steering of an aircraft while it is on the ground?
5. Which of the following had a retractable tail bumper wheel?
6. Modern gliders are generally equipped with a single wheel in order to minimize ___________
7. The Antonov An-225 has a total of 32 wheels and tires.
8. The volume and weight of the tires will decrease with an increase in inflation pressure.
9. Landing gears fold away during the flight to reduce ___________
10. Three greens refer to the landing gear being down and locked.
11. The landing gears have a ___________ hours’ time between overhaul.
12. Landing gear was previously referred to as ________
13. The landing gear supports the aircraft when it is flying.
14. Most retraction systems are _________ operated.
15. The Airbus A380 two sets of six-wheel bogies under the ___________
16. Steering an aircraft on the ground by exclusively using the rudder, requires a substantial amount of airflow to be moving past the rudder.
17. Landing gear systems are the _________ of an aircraft.
18. Which of the following is a basis for the selection of main wheel tires?
19. Which of the following decreases the nose gear load?
20. What is the full form of VTOL?

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