Wheel Wear Revisited
The ongoing discussion in these pages on saving tire wear by pre-spinning the landing gear wheels takes me back to 1948 when I was an apprentice at the Vickers-Armstrongs Aviation Co. near London. A Vickers Wellington aircraft there had pockets glued to the sides of the main landing gear wheels...
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