LOOK, NO WHEELS: The retraction operation of the landing gear is tested by jacking up, the aircraft and then retracting the wheels into the engine nacelles.
THE SILVER BIRD: In the, final stages of its overhaul, this flying boat of the Macao. Air Transport Company receives a coating of silver spray finish.-
PICTURE AT LEFT shows one of the big wheels being retracted into the nacelle.
WOMEN AT WORK: (Right). Re- fabricating and doping of the control
faces in en aircraft is done mainly by
women.
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SPARE BRAKE AS- SEMBLIES (below) aro held ready and installed when an aircraft has done a speci- fed number of. landings. The tyres are 10- ply ayloa wefts.
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