undercart
English
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[edit]undercart (plural undercarts)
- An aircraft's undercarriage.
- 1942, Hermann Hagedorn, chapter 5, in Sunward I’ve Climbed[1], New York: Macmillan:
- […] I have flown about ten hours solo on the Yale, an intermediate trainer rather like the Harvard, but without a retractable undercart and with a 350 instead of 600 horsepower engine.
- 1955, Neville Shute, chapter 6, in The Breaking Wave[2], New York: William Morrow & Co:
- I had just taken off with Red Two beside me and I had my head down in the cockpit at about two hundred feet as I got the undercart up, throttled back, and set the pitch.