Author Topic: Ladies and gentlemen off to the right is a white fiat.. (Read 379 times)

goaly · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2002, 10:44:40 PM »

Okay, I NOW accept that all of the photos are real! Thanks!

Toad · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2002, 11:08:23 PM »

The gear just has "truck tilt". That's the way it is supposed to look on that model.

Berra85 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2002, 10:44:46 AM »

i agree with what eskimo2 is saying, when taking off the engines are as powerful as hell, i found a video on a website showing the power of the engines, there was a truck driven past a airplane that was sitting there with its engines on, as the truck went past it was blown off of the road, ill try and find the site again and post it here.

Dago · « **Reply #18 on:** September 02, 2002, 01:24:02 PM »

Berra, that clip you mentioned (I have a copy) is a demostration staged to show the force generated by an aircraft when engines were pulling power.

If you look close, you can see the vehicle is being towed past the aircraft. Those engines were at high power on the 747.

On approach, jet engines are at much lower power.

Toad is correct about the gear, the forward main landing gear on a 747 is mounted in the wing structure and retract into the belly of the fuselage. To position the gear truck in the correct position to fit in the wheel well, the gear is tilted by a hydraulic cylinder on the back of the gear strut. They stay tilted until contact with the ground levels them.

dago

DA98 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 02, 2002, 03:54:49 PM »

If the picture is a fake, what is all these people looking at?