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Title: What is that thing on the MD80 nose wheel ?
Post by: anwar on March 07, 2013, 07:12:30 PM
http://airlinepilotchatter.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-that-thing-on-md80-nose-wheel.html
Title: Re: What is that thing on the MD80 nose wheel ?
Post by: rcpilotacro on March 08, 2013, 06:50:22 AM
Debris deflector including for in case of a blown tyre, these contraption first came into being in a belly air intake fighters, adapted for the civilian, i really wonder if it was there in the Concorde that crashed on take off

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