The wheels of the undercarriagehave a way of throwing up mud on to the lower surface.
It will then be said to be an "undercarriage bracing lift wire.
The undercarriage must be very carefully aligned as laid down in the specifications.
When pulling an aeroplane along, if possible, pull from the top of the undercarriage struts.
It might, perhaps, be acting as a drift wire also, in which case it will then be described as an "undercarriage bracing lift-drift wire.
Others were disappointed because we did not intend to drop our undercarriageover the sea, as Hawker had done, and prophesied that such neglect would lead to failure.
Alcock was feeling his way down gently and alertly, not knowing whether the cloud extended to the ocean, nor at what moment the machine's undercarriage might touch the waves.
Several times I held my breath, from fear that our undercarriage would hit a roof or a tree-top.
Its importance, of course, followed on its power of acting as a complete support, no perch being required to hold the two parts of the undercarriage together.
In these days this carriage was always built with a perch, the undercarriage resembling that of a coach, whence its name.
Here the carriage has a very small body, hung very high on large wheels, the undercarriage being abnormally long in consequence.
Skid, Undercarriage--A spar, mounted in a fore and aft direction, and to which the wheels of the undercarriage are sometimes attached.
Havilland, who by the end of January was flying a machine of his own design, when he narrowly escaped becoming a casualty through collision with an obstacle on the ground, which swept the undercarriage from his machine.
Two six-bladed propellers were placed side by side between the two main planes of the machine, which was supported on a triangular wheeled undercarriage and steered by fairly conventional tail planes.
The machine was not fitted with a wheeled undercarriage but was carried on two skids, which also acted as outriggers to carry the elevator.
One wheel only was fixed under the body where the undercarriage exists on a normal design, but light wheels were fixed, one at the extremity of each wing, and there was also a wheel under the tail portion of the machine.
It had a single propeller revolving in the centre behind the wings and was fitted with an undercarriage incorporated in the machine.
The practice, more common in monoplanes than biplanes, of carrying important bracing wires from the wings to the undercarriage was condemned owing to the liability of damage from frequent landings.
During the same period the Wright machine came into line with the others by the fitting of a wheeled undercarriageintegral with the machine.
Contemporary monoplanes practically all had their wings stayed by wires to a post in the centre above the fuselage, and, usually, to the undercarriage below.
Then he touched a button and the pontoons were drawn up into the undercarriage of the craft.
It resembles a gigantic Zeppelin in shape but it does not seem to have any undercarriage or, as far as I can see, any indication of propellers or portholes.
The propeller was splintered and the undercarriage gone but otherwise the plane did not appear to have been badly damaged.
The undercarriage of the tri-motor almost brushed the upper wing of the Good News.
As the catapult's force was spent automatic trips upon the undercarriage actuated the propelling rockets and mile after mile, with rapidly mounting velocity, the plane sped through the tube.
As the exit was approached, the tunnel described a long vertical curve, so that when the opening into the shaft of the crater was reached and the undercarriage was automatically detached, the vessel was projected almost vertically upward.
And Chris hauled himself up onto the undercarriage and clung to one of the wheel-stanchions, breathing, hard, hidden by the fuselage from the invisible pilot.
With a short sprint, he launched himself into a flying leap, grabbed out desperately--and felt the bar of the undercarriage between his hands.
So close was the other upon him that he imagined he could feel the wheels of the undercarriage on his own wings.
It was frequently returned to the factory for the replacement of the undercarriage and for other repairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undercarriage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
