Patent ID: 8151849

Claim:
A pneumatic tire for mounting on an aircraft wheel for use on an aircraft having a radial carcass and flipper reinforcement, the tire comprising: a pair of bead cores, each bead core having a radially extending cross sectional length; a number of axially inner plies greater than or equal to two extending between said bead cores said radial carcass reinforcement plies having textile reinforcing elements; a crown reinforcement having one or more belt ply layers or strips reinforced by cords oriented relative to the circumferential direction at an angle of between 0 degrees and 45 degrees with respect to the equatorial plane of the tire, the belt layers having a maximum belt width of BW as measured from each belt edge; and at least one flipper reinforcement wrapped around each bead core, the at least one flipper reinforcement having an axially inner end and an axially outer end, the axially outer end being turned up not higher than 1.4 times the cross section length of bead core as measured radially outwardly from bottom of the bead core perpendicular to the axis of tire rotation and wherein each flipper extends along an axially inner surface of the bead core to the axially inner end located in area that is between 0.01 BW to 0.25 BW as measured from the belt edge toward a centerline of the tire and wherein one flipper reinforcement has the axially outer end located in area that is lower than the top of the bead core.