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Old 14th Oct 2011, 05:00
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India Four Two
 
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PR and FP,

I think you are bumping in the wrong direction

To simplify thinking about this, I am going to ignore any oleo compression effects and imagine that the wheel is rigidly fixed to the airframe by the gear leg.

Then if one wheel is raised by 0.3048 m due to a bump, then the wing rib directly above the wheel is also raised by the same amount. It is completely independent of where the gear leg is attached.
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