Aircraft support

Usage examples of undercarriage.

Harlem, Remo found the longest Cadillac with the furriest seats and the most purple lights slung to the undercarriage.

That cumbersome black undercarriage and two pairs of elongated, limp tarsi and a pair of flaccid palps should by rights drag them back down to earth and thus evolutionary annihilation.

Ronald was given a push in the turtleback which almost knocked him off his undercarriage.

The undercarriage included rubber bungees which had a catapulting effect if you landed too fast or too hard, bouncing you back into the air like a rubber ball.

The four dustpan-shaped dredge heads beneath its undercarriage scooped up nodules and fed them through semicircular tubes into its diffusers, which sifted out the silt and spat it out through vents behind the machine, leaving behind a small bin of nodules.

The widely spaced legs of the undercarriage made contact, their pads tilted according to the contours of the ground, and the whole ship rocked slightly for a second as the shock absorbers neutralized the residual energy of impact.

The Russians had strengthened the undercarriage, added an arrester hook and some avionics that roughly matched the Tomcat's ILS and ACLS gear.

With a screech of tearing metal and splintering wood the undercarriage was ripped away by the topmost branches of a tall Corsican pine, the trunk spearing into the cockpit.

One of the watchtowers reported sighting an unfamiliar darkship sliding down the valley of the east fork of the Hainlin, traveling so low its undercarriage almost dragged the snow.

The exhaust pipe hung down from the undercarriage and was held in place with rusted wire.

It was a Model T chassis with two motorcycle tires on the front, two tractor tires on the back, what looked like a half-dozen hooked-together lawnmower engines, and an undercarriage made up of chicken wire and friction tape.

Thinking quickly, Hunter swerved and fired his cannon straight into the guts of the MiG keying in on Wa, ripping away the enemy's right wheel undercarriage and perforating its mid-fuselage fuel tank.

The headlamps successively illuminated two small hangars, a narrow, cleared runway stretching into the distance and, finally, a bullet-riddled Mosquito bomber with a crumpled undercarriage.

He could now see the overturned Scout, its wheels and undercarriage covered with fresh snow.

I was watching a Hurricane, whose tail appeared to be badly damaged and whose undercarriage had failed to work, coming slowly in to a pancake landing.