nitrogen in tires was: aluminum wheels

Frederick Smith smitty at pcrealm.net
Thu Mar 14 00:27:07 EST 2002


Aircraft tires are inflated with "dry" nitrogen. Stable at temp, you wouldn't
want blocks of ice forming in the wheels at 35k feet and then trying to land
the thing an hour later.

Not to mention trying to abort a takeoff with a less than stable gas in the
tires and a TO weight of 375TONS!!



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