Yeah, they do generate tremendous amounts of heat. In the airplane I fly there are plugs that would blow if the rim temps get over 155C. After a landing where you get on the brakes you can hear them ticking and creaking after we get out of the airplane.

I would guess the reason that the tires are filled with nitrogen would be because of the high altitudes some planes can fly. The moisture would be bad at high alt.

I need to find out

James

 

Yeah, they do generate tremendous amounts of heat. In the airplane I fly there are plugs that would blow if the rim temps get over 155C. After a landing where you get on the brakes you can hear them ticking and creaking after we get out of the airplane.

I would guess the reason that the tires are filled with nitrogen would be because of the high altitudes some planes can fly. The moisture would be bad at high alt.

I need to find out

James

 

Yeah, they do generate tremendous amounts of heat. In the airplane I fly there are plugs that would blow if the rim temps get over 155C. After a landing where you get on the brakes you can hear them ticking and creaking after we get out of the airplane.

I would guess the reason that the tires are filled with nitrogen would be because of the high altitudes some planes can fly. The moisture would be bad at high alt.

I need to find out

James

 

Yeah, they do generate tremendous amounts of heat. In the airplane I fly there are plugs that would blow if the rim temps get over 155C. After a landing where you get on the brakes you can hear them ticking and creaking after we get out of the airplane.

I would guess the reason that the tires are filled with nitrogen would be because of the high altitudes some planes can fly. The moisture would be bad at high alt.

I need to find out

James

 

holy **** dude, you only need to click the submit key ONCE!

But yeah, nitrogen is used in aircraft tires because of the lack of moisture and the ability to go through a wide range of temps with the minimum amount of pressure change. The plane I work on has the thermal relieve plugs too. They won't blow until the wheel temp gets up over 950 F. usually that only happens if the anti-skid system fails and the brakes lock up or the pilots reef on the brakes to keep from going off the runway. I don't think that any street car or street/strip car approaches a level of performance so high, that the driver should consider using pure nitrogen over air.

 

Yeah, sorry about that.

Damn, the plugs on your airplane own mine

What kind of plane is that? I am asuming it is a little heavier than the 26,000 lbs of plane I fly

James

 

I crew this

 

LOL, that thing lands at what the Shorts cruises at

NICE