Airbus A380 Landing Gear Drop Test

Goodrich Landing Gear is a leading supplier of landing gear systems and components to original equipment manufacturers and the worlds airlines.
Goodrich Landing Gear is found on leading large commercial transports worldwide. Goodrich landing gear is found on the latest aircraft to enter service such as the Airbus A380, as well as the workhorse aircraft of airline and cargo operators such as Boeing 737, 747, 767 and 777 models.

Over the years, Goodrich Landing Gear has delivered more than 28,000 landing gear shipsets to Boeing Commercial Aircraft, including legacy McDonnell Douglas models. This extensive experience is not only leveraged into new products and brought to bear to mature products to enhance their rugged reliability.

Landing Gear Services
When Airbus needed landing gear for its new A380 superjumbo airliner, they looked to Goodrich. At 18 ½ feet tall, a single A380 landing gear must support nearly 170 tons the equivalent of holding up five blue whales. The Goodrich main landing gear for the A380 is comprised of four main undercarriages two with four wheels each and two with six wheels each. Advanced materials make this huge landing gear system ruggedly reliable and remarkably lightweight.

In addition to the Airbus A380 and the Boeing programs in production, the Goodrich Landing Gear team provides spares, overhaul and support to out-of-production models including older Boeing 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, DC-9, DC-10 and MD-11 models.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Airbus
• A380
• Landing
• Gear
• Drop
• Test

[ahmedab84]

awsome, i love seeing all these tests thanks cmvair :)

[EmiratesT7]

WOW. amazing! I love this Gear and I love this Plane!"

[JetMechMA]

Heck, I think airlines are going to drop the Boeing 747 too. I think they are going to go with a range of twin engine craft. The railroads had the most powerful locomotive in the world too at 6300 horsepower. It was too big, not flexible enough. If one went down then a whole mess of frieght didn't go out. Now they run around in 4300 horsepower units. Don't be surprised if we see all jumbos phased out.

[d46512]

After all the build-up, they cut the footage short as the gear was moving about! It seemed bouncy. I wonder if it needed more damping? Or the springs were high-rate/stiff ?

[TheXSimulated]

@iFlyHighPRODUCTIONS make it longer

[iFlyHighPRODUCTIONS]

What do you think will happen, if I put my dick on those wheels while it's spinning?

[thefunproductions23]

GREAAAAAAAAAT testing a loovely plane and lovly gear