LY-10 Small Landing Gear
| LY-10 Small Landing Gear | ||
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| Landing gear by LightYear Tire Company | ||
| Radial size | Radial mounted | |
| Cost | (total) | 600.00 
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| Mass | (total) | 0.045 t |
| Drag | 0.2-0.3 | |
| Max. Temp. | 2600 K | |
| Impact Tolerance | 50 m/s | |
| Research |  Landing
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| Unlock cost | 3 800
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| 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.
Contents
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get the ability to turn, to allow sharper turns on the ground.[1] This has been confirmed by HarvesteR for update 0.23[outdated], stating that one could make landing gear steerable from the beginning of flight by use of the tweakables system coming in that update as well.[2]
Description
| “ | High performance landing gear designed for atmospheric use. — C7 Aerospace |
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Changes
- Electrical lights added
- Initial release
Notes
- ↑ Answer by C7 on HOCgaming's video “Kerbal Polar Expedition - Day 4 - Part 3 (Charity Water Campaign)”
- ↑ “0.23 Update News” post by HarvesteR
