Landing Gear Mechanism

The Challenge

For the 2nd year Kinematics and Dymanics project course, we were tasked with designing landing gear for a small fixed- wing aircraft.

The constraints of the project were as follows:

• The landing gear is to be driven only by a linear actuator
• When fully extended, the hub of the wheel should be .52 m below the fuselage
• The tires must have a diameter of 0.3 m
• The maximum weight of the aircraft should be assumed to be 700kg
• The landing gear mechanism should fully retract into the fuselage
• The landing gear fuselage cavity was restricted to 0.86 m in width and 0.55 m in height

The Final Design

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