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 primarily used on atmospheric planes, but may may be used on other objects that need to roll.
Contents
Usage
The Small Gear Bay 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 do not have 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.
Unlike landing legs, the Small Gear Bay is a physicsless part so their the mass and drag is not counted by the physics engine as of 0.23.5. Because of that their drag does not differ between the extended and retracted state, so there is no benefit to retracting them other than for cosmetic use.
As of the 0.23 update, the Small Gear Bay has the ability to steer, allowing sharper turns on the ground. This can be toggled either through tweakables or in flight.
Product description
| “ | High performance landing gear designed for atmospheric use. | ” |
Changes
- Steering unlock option added
- Electrical lights added
- Initial release
Notes
