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Old 21st Apr 2005, 07:09
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Konkordski
 
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If the problem is the stress an aircraft causes to the pavement, then the greatest force will occur on landing not take off.


Is that necessarily true, given that a landing aircraft is usually minus a substantial quantity of fuel and given that the aircraft doesn't use the runway to stop falling - the wings still provide lift at the point of contact - but rather to gradually settle its weight back on the ground?
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