Download or read book An Evalution of Some Approximate Methods of Computing Landing Stresses in Aircraft written by Elbridge Z. Stowell and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landing of a simplified airplane structure, consisting of a uniform beam for the wings, a concentrated mass for the fuselage, and a linear spring for the landing gear, is analyzed exactly and is compared with several approximate solutions. The approximate solutions which neglect elasticity in the determination of landing-gear reaction but consider elasticity in computations of stresses give results of good accuracy and indicate that drop tests in which rigid masses are used may be a satisfactory approach to the landing problem.