LY-10 Small Landing Gear

LY-10 Small Landing Gear
Landing gear by LightYear Tire Company
Radial size		Radial mounted
Cost	(total)	600.00
Mass	(total)	0.045 t
Drag		0.2-0.3
Max. Temp.		2600 K
Impact Tolerance		50 m/s
Research		Landing
Unlock cost		3 800
Since version		0.15
Part configuration		GearSmall.cfg
Retractable		Yes
Brake torque		4 kNm
Steering range		100 °
Testing Environments
On the surface		Yes
In the ocean		Yes
On the launchpad		Yes
In the atmosphere		Yes
Sub-orbital		Yes
In an orbit		Yes
On an escape		Yes
Docked		Yes
Test by staging		No
Manually testable		Yes
Electricity required		0.01 ⚡/s
Packed volume		140 l

The Small Gear Bay is a retractable wheel that is primarily used on atmospheric planes and may be used on other objects that need to roll.

Usage

The wheels allow planes to roll instead of slide and explode. They can also be used to create rovers that can drive on planet surfaces. Since 0.18, landing gear come with electric lights, but the light doesn't drain energy.

Despite the game presenting them among the rover wheel parts in the VAB, there are some important differences between them. The landing gear wheels do not have traction motors or steering, so vehicles using them must have some other means of acceleration and heading control. As planes have jet or rocket engines this is of minor importance for the most common usage. On the other hand, since they are designed to support planes during their takeoff or landing runout, they can withstand vastly higher ground speed than rover wheels with over 200 meters per second without become damaged.

Unlike landing legs, landing gear mass is not counted by the physics engine as of 0.19.1. This is similar to that behavior of struts and fuel lines.

In the future the landing gear might get the ability to turn, to allow sharper turns on the ground.

Description

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High performance landing gear designed for atmospheric use. — C7 Aerospace

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Changes

0.18

• Electrical lights added

0.15

• Initial release