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> the landing gear is so overbuilt That was something that caught my eye in the picture, it seems to have an endless number of tires on the ground.
by mark-r 5y ago
> the landing gear is so overbuilt
That was something that caught my eye in the picture, it seems to have an endless number of tires on the ground.
- masklinn 5y agoYep, the 225’s main landing gear had two sets of 7 pairs of wheels (so 28 wheels, plus 4 nose wheels). Up from 5 pairs on the An-124 (and the same 4 nose wheels). Interestingly it’s not such a high number, the C5 galaxy has 24 in the MLG and and 4 at the nose, despite being slightly lighter than the An-124 (it’s older though). The C5 looks a bit less weird from the side because its MLG is organised in 4 sets of 6 with each set having one pair at the front, and two pairs side-by-side at the back. So from the side it looks like it has 4 pairs per side rather than the actual 6 (it makes the C5 look absolutely alien from the bottom though).