OK, so lemme get this right. The tires retract so that they're "flat" against the belly of the aircraft, right. Then when they extend, they don't rotate 90 degrees so they're in line with the center axis of the aircraft?
Methinks that is a pretty serious design flaw.
You kid, right?
2,500 A-320's times sayyyyy 5 landings a day times sayyyy 10 years equals 46 million landings. and only 7 failures. And how many deaths (or even injuries).
Food service aboard any airline is more dangerous than landing gear.
Methinks you have not been around avaition much. Fairly common application.
Some even rotate 360 degrees when opening / closing.
LVM
<< OK, so lemme get this right. The tires retract so that they're "flat" against the belly of the aircraft, right. Then when they extend, they don't rotate 90 degrees so they're in line with the center axis of the aircraft?
Methinks that is a pretty serious design flaw . >>
Like every other aspect of the Euro-peons' Neo-Soviet, the entire airbus boondoggle is a pretty serious design flaw.
Or: "Methinks that is a pretty serious design flaw" = Terabitten's Law = Murphy's Law.
[And O'Allen's Law states that Terabitten and Murphy are Optomists!]