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• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 13-28
  Chapter 13: Aircraft Landing Gear Systems › Landing Gear Rigging & Adjustment › Landing Gear Retraction Test

  Landing Gear Retraction Test The proper functioning of a landing gear system and components can be checked by performing a landing gear retraction test. This is also known as swinging the gear. The aircraft is properly supported on jacks ... this check, and the landing gear should be cleaned and lubricated if needed. The gear is then raised and lowered as though the aircraft were in flight while a close visual inspection is performed. All parts of the system should…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 13-4
  Chapter 13: Aircraft Landing Gear Systems › Landing Gear Types › Fixed & Retractable Landing Gear

  Fixed & Retractable Landing Gear Further classification of aircraft landing gear can be made into two categories: fixed and retractable. Many small, single-engine light aircraft have fixed landing gear, as do a few light twins. This means the gear ... Chapter 2 of this handbook, as the speed of an aircraft increases, so does parasite drag. Mechanisms to retract and stow the landing gear to eliminate parasite drag add weight to the aircraft. On slow aircraft, the penalty of this…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 12-12
  Chapter 12: Transition to Complex Airplanes › Retractable Landing Gear › Landing Gear Safety Devices

  Landing Gear Safety Devices Most airplanes with a retractable landing gear have a gear warning horn that sounds when the airplane is configured for landing and the landing gear is not down and locked. Normally, the horn is linked ... airspeed indicator so that when the airplane is below a certain airspeed, configuration, or power setting with the gear retracted, the warning horn sounds. Accidental retraction of a landing gear may be prevented by such devices as mechanical downlocks, safety…