The Drag of Airplane Wheels, Wheel Fairings, and Landing Gears II : Nonretractable and Partly Retractable Landing Gears (1936)
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2 REPORT NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS streamline wheel. These wheels (fig. 2) have a load- inches in diameter, therefore represented a full-scale carrying capacity of 8,000 pounds each, according to engine of 56 inches diameter. Only half of each landing gear was tested. Each… … Figure 1.—Landing gear A mounted on wing with nacelle. a, Small expanding fillets, l/2 " ra-' section near the leading edge. The chordwise location dius at rear. of the wheels when in the landing position was deter- b3Large ex- panding mined from an assumed center-of-gravity location of fillets,…
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