They ensure the safety of the aircraft and passengers on the ground and in the air.

Seeing an aircraft as large as the A350-1000 touch down harder than expected makes many worry, but these landings are never ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has mandated that airlines inspect Boeing 767s to prevent an issue that could cause the type’s main landing gear to collapse. The move marks the regulator’s ...

To understand how a commercial jet's suspension works, it helps to first imagine a jet without suspension. The first aircraft landing gear systems were indeed that way. Engineers essentially welded ...

Investigators probing the failure and separation of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F’s body main landing-gear assembly at Luxembourg last year have found evidence that components in its inner shock-strut ...

3M Aerospace introduced new pre-formed polyurethane protective tapes to help decrease cycle time while inspecting main landing gear cylinders on Boeing MD-80 and MD-90 aircraft. Polyurethane ...

The FAA will mandate maintenance records checks on several Boeing aircraft types to flag and remove more than 300 improperly repaired main landing gear (MLG) assemblies after the issue was linked to a ...