How to Use landing gear in a Sentence

landing gear

noun
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  • That’s why planes lose doors, tires, landing gear, wingtips, etc. and end up with engines on fire.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
  • Who are those Afghans who were on the landing gear of the plane and fell?
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The three feet of Philae’s landing gear can be seen in some of the frames.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2014
  • One of the aircraft’s landing gear legs—the rear one on the left—decides to stay down.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 24 June 2020
  • The chief of these is the plane’s landing gear, which can be raised or lowered with a twist of the tail cone.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There is a piece of the landing gear of a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
  • When the wheels retract, some stowaways are crushed by the landing gear.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The video shows the nose landing gear bay doors were open, but the gear didn’t come down as expected.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Parts from the plane, including landing gear, were strewn across the street.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • His Citabria monoplane had grazed the ground, smashing the craft’s landing gear.
    — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The wing and landing gear were found nearly two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The wing and landing gear were found just under two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There's even retractable landing gear and the cockpit opens to reveal five seats for the flight crew.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The missing panel was on the underside of the aircraft where the wing meets the body and just next to the landing gear, United said.
    — Claire Rush, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • This group of six circled twice as Solsrud called and then dropped in, landing gear down.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
  • During a 2013 test, the craft failed to deploy part of its landing gear and skidded across the runway.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 June 2022
  • The hydraulic system on the Boeing 777 runs key systems, such as the landing gear, flaps and brakes.
    — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The plane crashed upon takeoff from the tiny airport in the Pyrenees, losing a wing and its landing gear in the process.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Not being able to defend the pass in the Big 12 is like flying a plane without landing gear.
    — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 8 Oct. 2017
  • That showed the nose landing gear doors were open, but the nose gear itself remained in the up position, Delta said at the time.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That showed the nose landing gear doors were open, but the nose gear itself remained in the up position, Delta said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 June 2023
  • The officials who spoke to ABC News point to the plane’s flaps not being engaged and landing gear not put down.
    — Gio Benitez, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • The pivot points are twice as far apart, to make room for the engine pods and the main landing gear, so the swing wings are stubbier and don't need to swing as far.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Scholl said the landing gear, for instance, was designed for takeoff and landing on over 600 routes around the world.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • The retractable landing gear also reduces drag for a faster, smoother flight.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The aircraft appears to be landing when the jet’s nose tips forward onto the ground and the front landing gear appears to snap off.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Delta plane lands without nose gear What goes up must come down – even without nose landing gear!
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Because pilots might be tempted to fly it all the way down, the designers added a small landing gear.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • According to United Airlines, the twin-jet has six tires on each of its two main landing gear struts.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That safe landing was possible because there are at least two wheels on every part of a landing gear, Pruchnicki says, in case one wheel falls or a tire goes flat.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 15 May 2024

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