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Could you be more specific on the required design criteria for main landing gears at AUW?
I seem to remember a figure of 9 feet per second for land planes and 12 for those to operate on to a carrier.
Is drop testing still employed or has computation taken over entirely?
Then we operators start to ask questions such as - "What is the definition of a heavy landing?" and -- "What do the engineers look for following a heavy landing report?" and - "Should the oleos bottom out at the maximum descent rate?"