landing gear

noun

1. the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.

landing gear

noun

1. See undercarriage
   another name for undercarriage

Word History and Origins

Origin of landing gear¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The bird-legged bot also opens up possibilities for an adaptable landing gear that can lessen the need for landing strips and helicopter pads.

From Popular-Science

In one video, at least a dozen people were on top of landing gear hatches as the aircraft accelerated down the runway.

From Washington Post

They seemed to have been heard when I felt the impact of the landing gear on the wet runway.

From Washington Blade

Autoland takes over from there—choosing an airport, physically flying the plane, and lowering the landing gear at the right time—to bring the vehicle down safely.

From Popular-Science

With the main landing gear gone, the right engine, still attached to the wing, was severely damaged.

From The Daily Beast

The crew would not normally be aware of a landing-gear problem until they were on final approach.

From The Daily Beast

Hydraulic pressure is involved not only in lowering the landing gear but in controlling the airplane.

From The Daily Beast

Donto recalled flying to Denver with his mother and they were informed the landing gear had malfunctioned.

From The Daily Beast

It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.

From The Daily Beast

Someone tampered with the pointer of the instrument and all but drained the gas containers when they wrecked the landing gear.

From Project Gutenberg

This time it struck one of the Lhari grazingly with landing gear and knocked him sprawling.

From Project Gutenberg

Harris himself was in the bottom of the plane, in the baggage section near the landing gear.

From Project Gutenberg

To strike this spar would entail danger of a crash, or having their landing-gear torn away, which would prove a disaster.

From Project Gutenberg

The landing gear must have torn off some of the fusilage when it hit.

From Project Gutenberg