March 29, 2008 at 6:41 am
Following on from Creaking Door’s non aviation quiz.
Does anybody know who first coined the phrase(or patented) the Oleo/Pneumatic strut for a/c landing gear.
A bit of googling has revealed some early aircraft with some form of oil/air landing gear strut.
Breguet appeared to have something similar in 1911.
T S Duncan of Vickers patented some form of this type in 1915.
Not sure there is an easy answer to this one:rolleyes:
cheers baz