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 LY-10 Small Landing Gear (formerly known as the Small Gear Bay) is a retractable wheel primarily used on atmospheric planes, but may may be used on other objects that need to roll.

Usage

The LY-10 Small Landing Gear allows planes to roll on the ground instead of sliding and (most likely) exploding. They can also be used to create rovers that roll on planet surfaces. Since 0.18, the Small Gear Bay comes with electric lights, but these lights don't drain energy.

Despite the game presenting them among the rover wheel parts in the editors, there are some important differences between them. The landing gear wheels only have tiny electric motors, so vehicles using them must have another means of acceleration. Since planes usually have jet or rocket engines, this does not pose as much of an issue. On the other hand, since they are designed to support planes during their takeoff or landing runs, they can withstand a vastly higher ground speed than rover wheels, needing over 200 m/s to break.

In prior versions, the LY-10 Small Landing Gear was a physicsless part with no mass or drag. However, as of version 1.0.5, retracting the wheel makes a noticeable reduction in drag.

As of the 0.23 update, the LY-10 Small Landing Gear has the ability to steer, allowing sharper turns on the ground. This can be toggled either through tweakables or in flight.

This landing gear consumes a large amount of electric charge when steering. It is not good for changing direction quickly, and barely steers at all when there is no electric charge remaining. If multiple wheels are used in a design, the SPH automatically turns off steering on all but one wheel. To improve steering capability, it is sometimes useful to manually reactivate and invert the steering on the rear wheels. On the other hand, the brakes are significantly better than the LY05 Steerable Landing Gear‎.

Product description

“

High performance retractable landing gear. Comes with shock absorber, steering and a built-in spotlights. If we didn't tell you, you'd never know that most of those components were salvaged from scrapped machinery... oh. — LightYear Tire Company

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Changes

The model before 1.1

1.2

• Moved from Utility to Ground
• Added deployment sounds
• Added ModuleDragModifier

1.1

• New Model, textures, updated description and addition of new wheel physics and suspension

1.0

• Renamed part

0.23

• Steering unlock option added

0.18

• Electrical lights added

0.15

• Initial release