Timeline for Why are the wheels of aircraft relatively small?
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| Oct 17, 2022 at 7:54 | answer | added | Flexo - Save the data dump | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2022 at 12:13 | comment | added | vsz | It depends on their purpose. Aircraft which have to land on rough terrain happen to have huge wheels: pinterest.com/pin/595601119461493175 | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1581389454614597633 | ||
| Oct 15, 2022 at 20:39 | comment | added | Michael | A more interesting question is why cars have big wheels and trucks and buses have even bigger wheels. It’s also interesting how tiny the wheels of some trailers are (which kind of shows that it’s possible to have small wheels, just not optimal). | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 20:06 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 15, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | Jim | One of the reasons for large diameter tires is for rolling over bumps and obstacles. Planes (other than bush planes) don’t have a need for that. | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 17:04 | vote | accept | Quinten | ||
| Oct 15, 2022 at 16:41 | comment | added | Jim | Hmmm. You quote cars at 14-19 and planes at 15-27. That’s a lot of overlap with plane tires being bigger. And then there’s the “40s” on some bush planes | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 12:35 | comment | added | GremlinWranger | Closely related aviation.stackexchange.com/q/91559/60886 | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 12:19 | answer | added | sophit | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 12:03 | history | asked | Quinten | CC BY-SA 4.0 |