"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Airbus may not know how to make a landing gear mechanism that works
reliably, but they sure do know how to make it TOUGH. It's hard to
imagine the stresses on that gear as the wheels ground themselves into
oblivion...

They have to be tough to survive my landings! Not to mention the tug drivers
at LaGuardia! Plus those JetBlue Airbusses are getting old. They're 6 years
old already! :-)

Last year, a Fed-Ex A-300 widebody landed at FLLwith the main wheels locked
up. It stopped in 2700'. All 8 wheels were ground down to the axle. Then a
DC-3 blew a tire and shut down the other wide runway. What a day!

D.