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 LY-10 Small Landing Gear (formerly known as the Small Gear Bay) is a retractable wheel that is primarily used on atmospheric planes, but may be used on other objects that need to roll.
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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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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. They come equipped with electric lights.
Despite the game presenting them among the rover wheel parts in the editors, there are some important differences between them. Landing gear parts have no motor, so vehicles using these wheels must have another means of acceleration. Since planes usually have jet or rocket engines, this usually does not pose much of an issue. Planes must use their engines to propel themselves on the ground, unlike rovers.
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.
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.
As a retractable landing gear, the LY-10 Small Landing Gear is well suited to faster planes; the gear can be retracted, massively reducing the amount of drag it generates.
The practical load limit for a single LY-10 wheel is about 7 tonnes.
Trivia
- Prior to version 0.23, the LY-10 Small Landing Gear (then the Small Gear Bay) was a massless part.
- Since then, not only has the LY-10 made physics significant, but the definition of massless has also been updated to the current physicsless part model.
Changes
- Moved from Utility to Ground
- Added deployment sounds
- Added ModuleDragModifier
- New Model, textures, updated description and addition of new wheel physics and suspension
- Renamed part
- Steering unlock option added
- Electrical lights added
- Initial release
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