Aircraft landing gear

A main landing gear leg hanging in the air, down and locked, with cloud and the towers of a city beyond it. Of the aeroplane itself we get a riveted panel of its own skin and nothing more.

A main landing gear leg, down and locked, photographed in flight from close against the aircraft’s own skin. The leg carries two wheels side by side, not one, and a second leg stands further outboard of it, its tyre showing at the lower right edge of the crop.

The near wheel’s face is a ring of vent slots around a centre with bolt heads. What sits between the two wheels is a bright bracket and the chrome piston of the oleo; the stack of brake discs this page described until 23 September 2026 is not something the crop shows. The oleo strut has a visible shoulder and is braced by a second member running down to the axle.

Across the bottom left of the crop runs a riveted panel of the aircraft’s skin, grey-green, the surface nearest the camera. The near tyre carries fine grooves running round its tread. Beyond the gear there is cloud, and through it the towers of a city.

How to recognise it

• Two wheels side by side on the near gear leg, down and locked in flight
• A second gear leg further outboard at the right of the crop
• A vented wheel face with bolt heads on the near hub
• Oleo strut with a visible shoulder, braced by a second member
• A riveted grey-green panel of the aircraft's skin nearest the camera
• Cloud beyond the gear and city towers through it

The frame it comes from

The frame is Trailer 2 at 1:59.63. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 1144 by 788 of it.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• The aeroplane. Every part of it that would name it – fuselage, wing, engine, tail, livery – is outside this shot.
• Whether it is the same aircraft as any of the other aeroplanes on this site. None of them is shown with its gear down at this range, so there is nothing to compare.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, where it spawns