Following a wheels up incident a couple of years back, the RAN now require SK to have the gear down whenever flying overland
Many years ago (early 80's?) the RN had a requirement to keep the gear permanently down, following a technical issue, for quite some time. The RN gear down flying resulted in a spate of bearing problems in the upper hinge of the main U/C struts, which were not engineered to take the stress of cruising with the gear down
(The fixed gear of the Commando has a different set up, before that is mentioned
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I wonder if this will become an issue in such as the S92, and even in the ASW Sea Kings being modified for the junglies, with gear down and locked, but the old retractable bearings having to take the strain?