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Winter Landing Gear

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. Ferrier
A. Ferrier*
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Engineering Division, Department of National Defence, Canada
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Snow falls in a great variety of forms, depending on a large number of conditions affecting the crystallisation of the moisture in the atmosphere. The forms may even vary from place to place or from time to time in one storm.

The character of snow as a medium for transportation depends not only on the form of its constituent crystals, but on the nature of the ground on which they fall, the depth of the total covering, the previous history of the underlying layers, and of course on the history of the last fall and the atmospheric temperature of the moment. Considering the characteristics for the purpose of aircraft operation, it is sufficient to make the broad classifications shown in Table I (page 504).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 282 , June 1934 , pp. 481 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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