Patent ID: 8746615

Claim:
An aircraft landing gear bay at least partly defined by a door, wherein the aircraft landing gear bay comprises a landing gear movable between (i) a stowed position, in which the landing gear is wholly contained within the interior space of the landing gear bay behind the door, and (ii) a deployed position, and a wheel assembly at the lower end of the landing gear, the landing gear including: a load bearing support, the support being connected between the upper end of the landing gear and the wheel assembly, the support including a shock-absorbing piston and barrel arrangement facilitating relative movement, in the vertical direction when the landing gear is deployed, between the wheel assembly and the upper end of the landing gear, and a torque link comprising a first link member having first and second ends and a second link member having first and second ends, said first end of said first link member being pivotally attached to the piston, said second end of said first link member being pivotally attached to said first end of said second link member, and said second end of said second link member being pivotally attached to the barrel, such that the torque link prevents axial rotation of the barrel with respect to the piston, said piston having an exposed portion that extends from the first end of the first link to the barrel, and wherein, noise that might otherwise be produced by the torque link is reduced by means of: the load bearing support of the landing gear being so configured that the piston is positioned closer to the upper end of the landing gear than the barrel so that at least part of the piston is partly contained within the interior space of the landing gear bay of the aircraft, when the landing gear is in the deployed position, thus the exposed portion of the piston and the torque link are contained within the interior space of the landing gear bay of the aircraft, when the landing gear is in the deployed position.