INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFTS’ WHEELS, THEIR MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS – A REVIEW

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  • TITLE: INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFTS’ WHEELS, THEIR MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS – A REVIEW
  • AUTHOR(S): Ş. Karakaya, T. Altinbalik
  • ABSTRACT: As of today, when people discuss regarding aviation, it is seen that it has become an important factor that affects the lives of millions of people all around the world. Not only as civil aviation, but also as an important factor for determining borders in wars. When we consider civil aviation, airplanes shorten distances, allowing us to re-evaluate the terms of time and distance, making modern humans access to almost every land mass in the world. It is generally accepted that civil aviation began with the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers in North Carolina in 1903. However, it is a fact accepted by almost everyone that mankind's love of flying dates back much further. Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, who lived in the Ottoman Empire between 1609 and 1640, is the best example of this. According to the story in the Seyahatname (travel book) of Evliya Çelebi, one of the Ottoman travelers, Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi, jumped from the Galata Tower with a southwestern wind in 1632, wearing a device resembling bird wings, glided 3,358 meters across the Bosphorus and landed in Üsküdar. It is a well example for mankind’s passion for flying. However, if we consider about flight with engine how The Wright Brothers did, civil aviation became a rapidly developing sector after this flight onwards and air transportation became an important sector around the world with the start of commercial flights. Rapid development and widespread use of aircrafts have also revealed the importance of aircraft components. One of the most important of these components is the landing gear and the aircraft wheels, which are part of this landing gear. Aircraft wheels, which play an active role in the take-off and landing moments of aircraft, are the most intense area which exposed to impact and are one of the components that absorb these impacts.
  • DOI: http://doi.org/10.62853/YHQM7087
  • PAGES: 34-38
  • DOWNLOAD: Vol71-2025-7-34-38.pdf
  • HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Ş. Karakaya, T. Altinbalik. Inspection of aircrafts’ wheels, their materials and applications – a review. Journal of the Technical university of Gabrovo. 71 (2025) 34-38.