00:00A massive Boeing 777 slams onto the concrete runway at 200 miles per hour.
00:07200,000 pounds of kinetic force crushes the landing gear, threatening to tear the wings right off.
00:14Common sense says solid steel springs should absorb the blow, but steel would bounce the
00:19plane straight back into the sky. Instead, an oleostrut forces high-pressure nitrogen gas
00:26and thick hydraulic fluid through tiny valves, instantly turning violent impact into harmless heat.
00:32This invisible gas cushion instantly neutralizes the shock before.
