Landing gear.

By 27 October October: see month. 1925, Oleo shock-absorbing landing gear developed by the Navy was reported in use on many military aircraft, such as the FB-1, below.

Within a few years designs for retractable re·tract
v. re·tract·ed, re·tract·ing, re·tracts

v.tr.
1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement.

2. landing gear were being considered. The Grumman FF-1, right, introduced retractable landing gear to the operational Navy, and the technology soon became commonplace in military and cilivian aircraft.

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Title Annotation:	Aviation Technology
Publication:	Naval Aviation News
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Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Nov 1, 2003
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