hi i'm an aviation enthusiast and (hope fully soon to be a pilot), and very well informed and up to date about aviation. the thought about airliner suspension came to mind. l have not read any thing about it. l was wondering if any of you more informed people out there know anything.

About 95% of all aircraft flying, large or small, use telescoping air-oil shock struts called oleos for this purpose that are intergral to the landing gear legs. The oleos have internal pistons and spring dampeners and use a combination of hydraulic oil and nitrogen to absorb the bumps, not unlike a shock strut used on an automobile or motorcycle.

pretty hard landing if it didn't.

What he said, but we refer to them as struts, not oleos. I've never heard that term before in my 34 years with the 'Force.

oleos are what you would hear if you had been in the air force, pilsman.

They are widely called ''oleos,'' and anyone with any real aviation experience is familiar with the term. It is the Spanish word for ''oil,'' and refers to the fact that the struts use an air-over-oil system to produce the boinginess.

Almost all airplanes have oleo struts, and big airliners have a whole collection of them.