I am not exactly sure what you guys are talking about with the "nut cracker" reference, but the Oleo Strut the vertical assembly with compressed air (or Nitrogen) and hydraulic oil. There is a piston assembly and a metered orifice arrangement, allowing this assembly to act as a shock-absorbing device.
The scissors assembly is a torque link, and helps dampen/resist torque moments imposed on the nose landing gear. A&P school was a while ago for me, but generally speaking, I believe the torque link is considered a part of the entire Oleo assembly. TB On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, dave perry wrote: > >> On 12/01/2009 11:38 AM, John Denker wrote: >>> On 12/01/2009 11:19 AM, Heiko Schulz wrote: >>> >>> >>>> To your note: So the c172p has now: >>>> >>> -struts animation >>> >>> The reported bug >>> http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/htm/bug-list.htm#bug-x1768 >>> concerns the nutcracker, which as of 1 Dec 2009 looks quite >>> weird because it doesn't fold; it just gets shoved rigidly >>> up into the cowling. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I just submitted a patch that animates the c172p nose gear "nutcracker" >> so it folds as the strut is compressed. >> > It's called an oleo strut. :) > > g. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
