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Old 4th Jul 2017, 18:06
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Brian W May
 
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When I was operating on 216 Sqn Trimotors, I accompanied SATCO and OC 216 doing a runway inspection around 1992/3. The runway was full of cracks even then.

A contributory factor was (particularly) Trimotors arrivals within quite a tight area and with the high tyre pressures and the nature of the Tristar's undercarriage caused quite a lot of damage when compared with other aircraft types.

Reckon it's more of the same, 8 mainwheels at high tyre pressures on Voyager ?
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