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Old 9th Mar 2008, 07:52
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The design criteria for a landing gear assumes 10 fps impact at max landing weight for the "design" case.

While impacts in excess of that (i.e. >600 fpm) may not be a "crash" most OEMs would consider that a "hard landing" threshold so making that a "fail" criteria wouldn't seem unreasonable if one were seeking a simple pass/fail threshold.
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