{"id":93158,"date":"2024-07-24T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-aircraft-land-on-their-rear-wheels-first\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T22:00:12","slug":"why-aircraft-land-on-their-rear-wheels-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=93158","title":{"rendered":"Why Aircraft Land On Their Rear Wheels First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Have you ever noticed (or spotted) that the aircraft&#8217;s nose is raised just before touching down? When landing, commercial aircraft always touch down on the rear landing gear first before the nose gear hits the ground. Ever wondered why? The very straightforward reason behind this is the plane&#8217;s center of gravity.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airliners always land their main landing gear before the nose gear touches down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,534,11841,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-landing-gear","category-nose-gear-collapse","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93160,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93158\/revisions\/93160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}