undercart
English
Etymology
Noun
undercart (plural undercarts)
- An aircraft's undercarriage.
- 1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 5,[1]
- […] I have flown about ten hours solo on the Yale, an intermediate trainer rather like the Harvard, but without a retractable undercart and with a 350 instead of 600 horsepower engine.
- 1955, Neville Shute, The Breaking Wave, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 6,[2]
- I had just taken off with Red Two beside me and I had my head down in the cockpit at about two hundred feet as I got the undercart up, throttled back, and set the pitch.
- 1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 5,[1]