Question for serious Skyraider experts...

[JohnB]

It's well known that the landing gear for the P-36 and P-40 (where the gear retracts rearward and the wheel rotates to lie flat) was developed by Boeing (but not used by Boeing until the XF8B-1 prototypes of 1944) and licensed to Curtiss for those aircraft.

The Skyraider has a similar gear layout.
Did Douglas license the system from Boeing or is it sufficently different so they didn't have to?

[51fixer]

It's well known that the landing gear for the P-36 and P-40 (where the gear retracts rearward and the wheel rotates to lie flat) was developed by Boeing (but not used by Boeing until the XF8B-1 prototypes of 1944) and licensed to Curtiss for those aircraft.

The Skyraider has a similar gear layout.
Did Douglas license the system from Boeing or is it sufficently different so they didn't have to?

IIRC the Skyraider prototype flew with Corsair MLG.
P-40 system has gear segments, one bolted to the wing and another on the rotating MLG leg. As it moves it then rotates.
Corsair and Skyraider have a kind of U-Joint to allow rotation. They also shrink the strut so that it is shorter when retracted in the wheel well than it is hanging extended.