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Bogie Undercarriages*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

There has been little practical experience in the United Kingdom on the operation and use of bogie undercarriages, although the de Havilland Comet, the production version of which is fitted with four-wheel bogie main undercarriages, has done enough flying now to give some idea of the snags likely to be encountered.

These remarks are confined mainly to the theoretical and practical advantages and disadvantages of bogie undercarriages in general, with brief descriptions of some of the various types.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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Footnotes

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A Section Lecture given on 4th March 1952—the 848th Lecture to be given before the Society.

References

* By a coincidence the authors of the two papers on undercarriages in this Journal have quoted the same Royal Aircraft Establishment experiments: Fig. 1 of Mr. Cusson's paper, and Fig. 5 of Mr. Blinkhorn's paper (p. 555) refer to the same results.—Ed.