{"id":7661,"date":"2024-03-24T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2024-05-24T21:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:09:58","slug":"whats-landing-gear-bogie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-landing-gear-bogie\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s landing gear bogie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference: FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-Airframe Volume 2 Chapter 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Undercarriage_arrangements\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Undercarriage_arrangements<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple wheels spread the weight of the aircraft over a larger area. They also provide a safety margin should one tire fail.<br \/>\nHeavy aircraft may use four or more <strong>wheel assemblies<\/strong> on each main gear. When <strong>more than two wheels<\/strong> are attached <strong>to a landing gear strut<\/strong>, the attaching mechanism is known as a <strong>bogie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bogie-Landing-Gear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bogie-Landing-Gear.png 501w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bogie-Landing-Gear-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From wiki information, wheel assemblies are described by the total number of wheels and axles.<\/p>\n<p>For example, B777 has 6 wheels, 3 axles boggies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wheels-bogie-axles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wheels-bogie-axles.png 756w, https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/wheels-bogie-axles-300x260.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference: FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook-Airframe Volume 2 Chapter 13, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Undercarriage_arrangements Multiple wheels spread the weight of the aircraft over a larger area. They also provide a safety margin should one tire fail. Heavy aircraft may use four or more wheel assemblies on each main gear. When more than two wheels are attached to a<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-landing-gear-bogie\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agk-airframe-engine-system","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}