![]() However, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are proven to have a greater impact in reducing carbon emissions when looking at the full supply chain from production to the road.Ĭovering a period of three years and considering the existing constraints on the range of electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure available in Europe, this new operation will co-finance an eventually equal number of BEVs and PHEVs (15 000 vehicles in total over three years). In most EU countries, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) still account for the largest number of green vehicles on the road. It will enable ALD | LeasePlan to further develop its range of electric vehicles (battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) across the European Union, in the countries covered by both companies.ĮU targets for tackling climate change - which involves a major reduction in CO 2 emissions - effectively require a gradual move to electric or plug-in hybrid cars. This operation breaks down into a €300 million credit envelope from the EIB (on favourable financial conditions) and an equivalent €300 million investment made by ALD | LeasePlan for a duration of three years. In a crosswind landing, consequently, the aircraft can be headed directly into the wind while rolling down a runway not aligned with the wind.Following on from the major financial partnership signed in 2019 to support the transition to a sustainable economy via green vehicle development, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and ALD | LeasePlan, the leading global sustainable mobility player, have launched a new operation to further accelerate the growth of the ALD | LeasePlan hybrid and electric vehicle fleet in Europe. Both the front and rear bogies can be set at angles of as much as 20° to either side of the straight-ahead position. An interesting feature of the B-52 landing gear greatly eases the problems posed by crosswind landings. ![]() As compared with their location on the B-47, the outrigger wheels are positioned much nearer the wingtip on the B-52. ![]() Air Force iconic B-52 bomber was designed in such a way the landing gear can be set up to 20 degrees left to right of centerline for both takeoff and landing.Īs explained by NASA (that has been a BUFF operator) on its website, “the landing gear of the B-52 is of the same bicycle arrangement as employed on the B-47 but has four two-wheel bogies instead of the two bogies used on the earlier aircraft. Here’s a description of the characteristic swiveling landing gear of the B-52 from a previous article: ![]() You can clearly see the lights “fall victim” to the the outrigger wheel, designed to keep the wing tanks from skidding on the runway. The video below, taken by our friend Misael Ocasio Hernandez, shows the full display of the B-52 including the taxi part. ![]() Interestingly, during the “crabwalk”, the outrigger wheel of the Stratofortress aircraft hit some of the runway lights (18). The most impressive part of the display (most probably cut short because of the weather that affected RIAT throughout the weekend) came after landing, as the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) taxied down the runway using its peculiar steerable dual-bicycle landing gear to face the strong crosswinds at RAF Fairford. Flying as SURGE 22, the strategic bomber took from runway 27, spent some time in a holding to the east of the airfield then carried out a flypast with tanker KC-135R QID 71 from Mildenhall in the lead and eventually returned for an overhead break for a visual landing. ![]()
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