Messier-bugatti-dowty

Safran Landing Systems

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd

Messier-dowty Inc.

David Bond

Richard Masson

Patrick Dunleavy

Melvin Ekbote

Mayur Kallabettu

Paul Trowbridge

Andrew Smith

Andy Smith

An aircraft landing gear assembly includes a lock link and a rotary electromechanical actuator which includes motor and gearbox unit arranged to move a pawl into contact with the lock link to break the lock link. A release mechanism is provided to enable the lock link to be made in the event of the motor and gearbox unit jamming.

Aircraft landing gear assembly

An apparatus includes a fitting connected to a body. The fitting has an engagement portion including a channel formed into a peripheral surface of it and an axis. The body includes an axial layer provided around at least some of the peripheral surface of the engagement portion of the end fitting and a hoop layer provided around the axial layer at a location corresponding to at least some of the channel so as to urge at least some of the axial layer into a portion of the channel. The channel is arranged such that at least some of it defines a pathway that is non-orthogonal with respect to the axis of the fitting, such that at least some of the surface area of the channel defines a load bearing surface for the transfer of torque between the fitting and body when a rotational force is applied to one of them.

Apparatus comprising an end fitting connected to a body

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

David Bond