Objective There is always a request from the aircraft manufacturers to reduce the weight of airframe, engines and equipment so as to increase the range and payload of commercial aircraft. This has been highlighted by studies into future large aircraft with capacities of between 600 and 800 passengers. These studies have shown that there is a relationship between typical equipment weight and aircraft capacity, specifically that growth of equipment weight with MTOW is to a power of 3/2. In applying this relationship to the landing gear for a passenger aircraft of the size proposed, the weight of the landing gear is projected to be in excess of 20 tonnes. This clearly represents a significant proportion of the aircraft weight and the aircraft manufacturers suggested that this might be the subject of a research project with an objective to reduce the projected weight by some 25%.EUROGEAR EEIG examined this requirement and identified that three areas of technology need to be addressed which, together, might enable the reduction in projected weight required by the aircraft manufacturers. The three areas of technology are 1) design methodology, 2) advanced landing gear damping controls and 3) advanced structural composite materials. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft Programme(s) FP3-AERO 1C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - Aeronautics research -, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Eurogear EEIG EU contribution No data Address Zone Aeronautique Louis Breguet 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay France See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Aérospatiale Société Nationale Industrielle SA France EU contribution No data Address 316 route de Bayonne 31060 Toulouse See on map Total cost No data British Aerospace Airbus Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Filton House Filton BS99 7AR Bristol See on map Total cost No data CENTRE D'ESSAIS AERONAUTIQUE DE TOULOUSE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Henri Guillaumet 23 31056 TOULOUSE See on map Total cost No data Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA Spain EU contribution No data Address 404,Avenida Aragon 28022 Madrid See on map Total cost No data Cranfield University United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address MK43 0AL Cranfield See on map Total cost No data Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus GmbH Germany EU contribution No data Address Kreetslag 10 21129 Hamburg See on map Total cost No data Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt eV (DLR) Germany EU contribution No data Address Münchnerstraße 20 82234 Weßling See on map Total cost No data Dunlop Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Fort Dunlop B24 9QH Birmingham See on map Total cost No data Université de Liège Belgium EU contribution No data Address 21,Rue Ernest Solvay 4000 Liège See on map Total cost No data
