Patent ID: 8651418

Claim:
An aircraft landing gear comprising: a leg comprising two arms forming a pivot for retracting the landing gear; a rotary tube mounted so that it can turn inside the leg about a pivot axis and extending beyond the retraction pivot with respect to a position of at least one wheel of the landing gear; a sliding rod capable of translational movement inside the rotary tube along the pivot axis and bearing at one of its ends the at least one wheel of the landing gear; and at least one means for rotating the leg about the retraction pivot through collaboration with the structure of the aircraft and with a fulcrum positioned on one of the elements of the landing gear distant from the retracting pivot, wherein the fulcrum is positioned on the rotary tube, on the opposite side of the retraction pivot to the at least one wheel, and the fulcrum comprises two lateral extensions positioned one on each side of the pivot axis of the rotary tube and two actuators acting respectively on the lateral extensions, the landing gear being retracted or lowered by simultaneously elongating moving assemblies of the two actuators by a same amplitude and the landing gear being pivoted by elongating the moving assemblies in opposite directions but by the same amplitude.