landing gear

English

Noun

landing gear (countable and uncountable, plural landing gears)

2. (uncountable, countable, aviation) The wheels, tyres, brakes, shock absorbers etc of an aircraft.

   Synonym: undercarriage

   Hypernym: gear

   Hyponyms: tricycle landing gear, tricycle gear, bicycle landing gear, bicycle gear, tandem landing gear, tandem gear, quadricycle landing gear, tailwheel

   Coordinate term: pontoons

   Modern landing gear usually has a tricycle configuration.

   • 1954, “Where Do All the Wheels Go on a B-52?”, in American Aviation‎^[1], volume 18, page 42:

     Boeing had a problem of too much landing gear

   • 1968, Astronautics & Aeronautics‎^[2], volume 6, page 4:

     The comparison between the tricycle and tail-skid type of landing gears is a case in point.

3. (countable, aviation) Any of the assemblies which support an aircraft when it is on the ground.

   Large modern commercial aircraft have a nose landing gear and two main landing gears.

4. (road transport, automotive) The bipod stand found near the front end underneath a truck trailer, used to keep the trailer level when not attached to a tractor truck.

Derived terms

• bicycle landing gear
• quadricycle landing gear
• tandem landing gear
• tricycle landing gear

Translations

undercarriage

• Danish: landingsstel (da) n
• Dutch: landingsgestel (nl)
• Finnish: laskuteline (fi)
• French: train d'atterrissage (fr) m
• German: Fahrwerk (de) n
• Hungarian: futómű (hu)
• Icelandic: lendingarbúnaður m
• Italian: carrello d'atterraggio m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: understell n

  Nynorsk: understell n

• Polish: podwozie (pl) n
• Portuguese: trem de pouso m (Brazil), trem de aterragem m (Portugal)
• Romanian: tren de aterizare (ro) n
• Russian: шасси́ лета́тельного аппара́та n (šassí letátelʹnovo apparáta)
• Spanish: tren de aterrizaje (es) m
• Swedish: landningsställ (sv) n, landställ (sv) n
• Turkish: iniş takımı