DO YOU KNOW ? WHY AIRBUS 330 HAS BUBBLE AT NOSE LANDING GEAR

 

Aerography67 Aviation : Why Airbus 330 has Bubble at Nose Landing gear 

Airbus 330 is wide body Turbofan powered airplane designed and produced by Airbus. Its a second wide body aircraft of airbus after A300 , the first flight of A330 was on 2nd November 1992, 

The first variant manufactured for A 330-300 , then a slightly shorter variant manufactured on 1998 which was A330-200 . 

POWER PLANT : 

                           The Airbus 330 was the first airliner to offer a choice of Three engines 

                          * General Electric CF6 

                          * Pratt & whitney PW4000

                          * Rolls-Royce Trent 700 

First operator of A330 : 

                                    AIR INTER was the first airline to operate a330 on 17th January 1994 

Turkish Airline has the largest fleet of Airbus 330 with current usage of 68 jets. 

Bubble at nose landing gear is found only on 330 freighter variant .

DO YOU KNOW WHY ? 

                                      Here you go ie.... This bulge can be seen only at pure freighter variant of 330 whereas on normal 330 or the passenger converted 330 cannot find this .

The Airbus 330 family had nose down pitch issue something it shares with 340 even. They were not able to achieve a level cabin floor something it was essential for cargo .So to overcome the issue Airbus was forced to re-design the landing gear for freighter variant . In the end airbus settled on lowering the leg attachment points to raise the nose slightly and this modification was required some additional housing / space hence the bulge was designed.