Tires

The following is derived from maintenance facility submissions to the FAA’s Service Difficulty Reports database.

This pilot wrestles with and nervously answers an age-old question, sort of.

A budding owner learns that while his Cessna seems modest, it also provides a world of opportunity.

Airplane wheels, better known as landing gear, endure the roughest treatment of any aircraft’s equipment. They not only support the full weight of the airplane’s payload, but airplane tires withstand takeoff speeds and must be equipped to handle sudden spin-ups when contacting the runway upon touchdown, and aggressive stops at high velocities. Extreme heat and […]

A tire that can morph into an aircraft propeller? Goodyear thinks it’s the perfect solution for autonomous flying cars of the future that would ride on the thin, airless tires, which could then pivot like a tiltrotor to provide propulsion as the wheel’s spokes double as fan blades. The Goodyear Aero concept introduced this week […]