I keep seeing people say that the arado did NOT have conventional landing gear but took off on a dispensable wheel set, this is not true. Before it ever entered COMBAT it was fitted with landing gear, there was no model that saw combat that did not have gear.
"Since the aircraft was too slender to carry the bombs internally, the bombs would have to be carried on external racks. This made the skid-landing scheme impractical, and so the bomber would have conventional tricycle landing gear."
"Before it flew, the Air Ministry directed Arado to redesign the landing gear and give the jet a bombing capability. Kosin and his team enlarged the fuselage slightly to accommodate a conventional tricycle landing gear and added a semi-recessed bomb bay under the fuselage"
[Aircraft of the Smithsonian]
[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 01-26-2001).]
[This message has been edited by TheWobble (edited 01-26-2001).]
