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[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by gordner

Airline tires are replaced due to wear %100 of the time, I have never seen an aircraft maintenance scheduled with a time life on the rubber based on calender, always cycles.
mot large aircraft have some type of spin up system, as does the one in that picture. It is not an exact match airspeed to ground speed, so you still smoke. That looks like pretty excessive smoke, the photographer may have caught a lower time pilot flat spotting the tires by having some brake applied at touch down, that happens all the time.

I've worked on these for 35 years - there is no "spin up system". The tires are not rotating until they are forced to do so at touchdown. Probably a dragging brake.

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Fair enough for the MD80, i have limitted experience on those. However, lots do have spin up systems to reduce tire wear that was my only point. The private MD80 I worked on had a nose wheel spin up system, probably by mod in the case.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Where/what is that?

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Wait, never mind... Where is that!?!

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Originally Posted by scottmandue

Where/what is that?

And why does that horse have a stick-shift??

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[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by gordner

Fair enough for the MD80, i have limitted experience on those. However, lots do have spin up systems to reduce tire wear that was my only point. The private MD80 I worked on had a nose wheel spin up system, probably by mod in the case.

O.k., that's fair - and also in fairness, I should point out all of my experience is with Boeing aircraft. We don't use any such systems. I've poked around on a few MD's since we "merged" and have not seen them on any of those, either, but I guess it's pretty presumptuous of me to say no one uses them.

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Where/what is that?

That's the Chinggis Khaan Memorial outside of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I was over there earlier this year working on a 767.

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