Marine-1 Landing gear
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I would imagine height comes into it and time the gear takes to drop, no point putting it up if it's going to take longer than an emergency descent and landing to come back down.
As twin Huey man points out - it doesn't retract at the moment to save maintenance on the gear.
Pinning the landing gear to save on maintenance on an H3/S61 is perhaps the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire career. It was obviously dreamt up by some desk-bound non-aviating MBA! Utterly pathetic.
Pinning the landing gear to save on maintenance on an H3/S61 is perhaps the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire career. It was obviously dreamt up by some desk-bound non-aviating MBA! Utterly pathetic.
if you base the costs at 6000 per hour and the suggested 6 percent upcost in fuel burn your looking at 350 dollars. What's the cost of a main gear strut replacement assume as Crab indicated you can find one
Just speculating:
They could want to use the gear bay for some additional equipment and maybe some fixed gear configuration can be made more energy absorbing for VVIP transportation? They never seem to go long distance so the penalty can't be that bad. And costs or spare parts are no consideration.
They could want to use the gear bay for some additional equipment and maybe some fixed gear configuration can be made more energy absorbing for VVIP transportation? They never seem to go long distance so the penalty can't be that bad. And costs or spare parts are no consideration.
Just speculating:
They could want to use the gear bay for some additional equipment and maybe some fixed gear configuration can be made more energy absorbing for VVIP transportation? They never seem to go long distance so the penalty can't be that bad. And costs or spare parts are no consideration.
They could want to use the gear bay for some additional equipment and maybe some fixed gear configuration can be made more energy absorbing for VVIP transportation? They never seem to go long distance so the penalty can't be that bad. And costs or spare parts are no consideration.
Yes, when the Royal Flight in UK were still using the venerable Wessex, any parts had to be either new or ISTR at less than 50% of their life. I can't imagine POTUS would be allowed to fly in anything that wasn't rigorously over-engineered.
