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Other potential applications include armored vehicle and airplane landing wheel.
Sailplanes usually have a single landing wheel beneath the forward part of the fuselage.
The addition of a retractable landing wheel gear to a float seaplane or flying boat, also accomplished by Curtiss, created the amphibian aircraft capable of operating from land runways or water.
The Jet Lock is a device that clamps around a plane's landing wheel, completely immobilizing it.
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None of the landing wheels could descend.
Then, an hour before our scheduled landing, the pilot announced that one set of the plane's landing wheels would not descend.
"We pulled up the landing wheels when the plane was coming down and made it crash on the runway," they babble in unison.
He developed the float seaplane, which is essentially a land plane with buoyant floats or pontoons substituted for the landing wheels, and the flying boat, in which the main float and the fuselage are combined in a single boatlike body.
That Mr. Lasiuk and his fellow passengers were able to describe their emotions — as well as the fairly graceful landing with only two landing wheels in place — was testament to the abilities of the five-person crew, they said later.
Only two of the three landing wheels had opened successfully, and after repeated attempts to fix the problem had failed, those aboard were instructed to prepare for a crash landing.
Two hours later, the landing wheels were installed, each one four and a half feet high and weighing 300lbs.
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