Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
E Z Peaces wrote in
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I've read about oleo aircraft struts at least as early as the 1920s.

Theyre not dampers, they're oleos and provide no damping. Shock
absorbers are something different and have a different function, though
tey're misnamed in any case, since its the springs that absorb and the
shicks, as they;'re called, prevent the energy stored in the spring from
rebounding the wheel off the road. Airplanes don't have shock absorbers.

Here's an example:
http://www.hangar9aeroworks.com/Aero...oncastrut.html