A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

thanks to biomechanical improvements to its landing gear modeled on the crane fly, which has a similar wingspan and body size to the RoboBee platform. The details of this achievement appear in a ...