Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Dennis Chamberlin) Subject: Re: Tire burn-out during landings X-Submission-Date: 29 Dec 92 17:38:58 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Reply-To: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Dennis Chamberlin) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <8105@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> Date: 29 Dec 92 12:39:16 PST In article inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes: > >Does anyone have any estimates about the costs using the current "cloud of >smoke" and friction method of landing? How much does one of those tires >cost? > I recall an old issue of AWST that described the certification flight test program for the first 747. The flight test budget included a 3 million $ line item for "Wheels, tires, and brakes". At least one of these tests was known to be destructive. The worst-case demonstration of a takeoff abort would seem to thoroughly cook all of the tires and brakes. I don't know if any of the wheels were savable.