Wheel Respin
Regarding pre-spinning landing gear wheels before touchdown mentioned in “Wheel Wear Revisited” (AW&ST Aug. 16, p. 8), I recall a switch in the cockpit of the giant (for its time) Lockheed Constitution to spin up the wheels electrically. State of the art in 1946?
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