HOW MANY LANDINGS can TIRES withstand?? Explained by CAPTAIN JOE

I like how he’s always smiling, this gives me faith that I’m gonna become like him one day

After a lot of landings they must be really tired

"the life of the tires depends on how smoothly the pilot lands the plane..."

Ryanairpilots: "heavy breathing intensifies"

Excellent presentation and accurate information. I was a landing gear engineer for a major airline. You may be interested in my comments to another airline captain's YouTube. He commented on rotating the wheels and tire prior to landing:

I was a landing gear engineer with a major airline for 33 years and the tires were one of my responsibilities. Seeing the 2,617 comments below remind me of the MANY times I answered the same question. One of the major points you didn't mention is that the wheels spinning at touchdown speed with the tires out of balance would shake the airplane apart. With eighteen tires spinning on a 747 one can imagine the shaking that would occur and the passenger's reaction. Actually, B.F. Goodrich ran an exhaustive test on this problem a number of years ago and discontinued the test because of the vibration it set up. Everyone believes that adding little flaps on the wheels or tires would solve the rotation problem but there is no way to control the speed of each tire so there would be no real benefit. In addition, not only spinning the tires but the brakes would also have to be spun up which would require considerable power. The brakes are designed to absorb the enormous energy of a rejected takeoff and not easily rotated. Nitrogen is used to prevent the tires from exploding. We once had all four tires explode on a 727 after the pilot taxied the airplane up and down the runway trying to burn off the fog. The tires at that time were filled with air (80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen). The brakes became so hot with all the taxiing that the tire solvents mixed with the 20% oxygen and became hot enough to explode. We all converted to filing the tires with nitrogen after that. As an added note, when the Concorde was designed, they considered using nitrogen in the tires just to save weight. The gyroscopic effect of spinning tires would also adversely affect trying to control the airplane during a critical time of landing. Your video brought some interesting points from a pilot's perspective. I just thought I would add a few points from an engineering point of view and experience

2:17 For the benefit of anyone who might not know, high pressure tests, Including testing of lab equipment at thousands of psi, is routinely done by filling the equipment using water rather than a gas, as water has an extremely low compressibility for a fluid. Thus, when failure occurs, only a small amount of water is released before the pressure drops back down to atmospheric. For stainless steel lab equipment, the amount of fluid released during failure is tiny. The reason the aircraft tire responded so energetically on failure, and so much water was released, was because of the mechanical energy stored in the rubber tire itself as it expanded under internal pressure prior to failure. If that same tire had been filled with gas when it failed, the force of the explosion would have been catastrophic.

3:33 The answer.

I always thought those tires were tiny

3:50 that landing tho 10/10

Tires work until they get tired :D

Very interesting - thank you. I was once on a flight years ago that blew a tire on take-off; parts of the tire were sucked into the rear-mounted engine (MD-80?), causing it to shut down. The pilot was committed and continued the take-off (on the one remaining engine), after which we circled for a while to burn and dump fuel. He then landed the plane on the "good" side, then very gently set the plane completely down. Fire engines on both sides; no one panicked but there was great applause when we were on the ground. I thanked the pilot for his skill as we exited the aircraft (in the days when the pilot could leave the cockpit to greet passengers). I greatly respect the skills that most pilots have.

When I was younger I worked driving a tractor mowing highways. We used old airplane tires because even though they were not usable for airplanes they would never go flat and were great for the tractors

I have watched tire changes due to excessive wear or surface damage. i always found it interesting that the mechanics can use the pressure in the tire being removed, to power the air jack that is used to raise the plane.

You watch a video of one of your favorite channels and suddenly you see an inflation cage, which is manufactured by the company you are working with. Strange yet satisfying! Keep up the good videos!

Ryanair must need to change their wheels every day

1:30 so the 747 is the world's largest 18 wheeler :D

I teach chemistry and physics, I also run a science club at school...this channel has caused interest in flight-related science to take off (sorry, I couldn't resist!). Seriously though, the number of questions and experiment requests related to flight/aviation science is crazy. Thank you for making so much of this accessible to teenagers by making your explanations so clear, thank you for triggering a much-needed increase in interest in both maths and science.

Ryanair must have a scrapyard of their tires

Car tires can and often are filled with Nitrogen, for exactly the same reasons you mentioned.

I like it how you talk briefly about the topic in comparison with Mentour pilot. Your video has 7 minutes, if Mentour will make the same video - It will have 25 minutes. And I will learn the same information.

It is fantastic how Cpt. Joe make his videos so detailed. This is why not only me but so many others consider Cpt Joe the best airplane channel on Youtube.
This video is very interesting and very complete from the way the tires are made to the end of the tire life.
Keep doing that great videos Cpt. Joe.