both feature rear-tilting landing gear, while the newer A380 and A350-900 use a forward tilt. As discussed previously, the A350-1000's gear is not tilted. Unique to the Boeing 777 and the 787 ...

The Airbus A380 has five sets of landing gear and 22 wheels. Various groups spent weeks threading the wires into thousands of veins for installation. As the group began to lay the cables along the ...

To stop the A380, enormous composite Honeywell brakes on 16 of the 20 main landing gear wheels do most of the work. As on most new airliners, the A380’s brakes are anti-skid. They work like the ...

Landings are rough on aircraft wheels -- you can probably tell from the noises and smoke alone. How much rubber is left ...

The purchased A380 was among the earliest ever made and ... but also the maintenance side of things, how new is the landing gear, and most importantly, the engines.” Global and Doric are not ...

The world’s largest passenger jet made its first-ever regularly scheduled landing at Denver International Airport on Wednesday, when a Lufthansa German Airlines Airbus A380 touched down after a ...