This is an animation of the landing gear for the XB-70 Valkyrie. As far as I know, the folding sequence was never filmed. This was put together using several references to create an accurate animation.

There is only one error that I'm familiar with and that is: When the wheel truck starts its initial rotation it is also rotating in the 2nd axis to bring it parallel with the landing gear. So, basically, the two rotations you see in the beginning happen at the same time.

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This is an animation of the nose landing gear for the XB-70 Valkyrie. As far as I can tell everything is correct on it with the exception of the actual cycling time. There is very little documentation on how the landing gear doors articulate on the plane so I did my best guess. If you know any place where my animation is wrong, please advise.

About the animation:
Modeled and rendered in Lightwave 3D on a Mac. Rendering time was 9 hours with radiosity turned on.

For an animation of the main landing gear, please see:
www.flickr.com/photos/aorr/3011325161/

I plan on re-animating the main gear to incorporating some changes that need to be made and to give it a more-realistic rendering such as the one above: complete with landing gear doors and the engine bay area.

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The Jets pictured here are the Pan Am 707-120, KLM 737-400, Southwest 737-800 and Southwest 727-200.

These pictures were taken a while ago, but I though it showed the evolution of Boeing narrow body Jets nicely.

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ASREV - [Alliance Short Range Enforcement Vessel] from Firefly

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