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This graphic depicts the low cost experimental setup that Boeing Phantom Works used to demonstrate the feasibility of motorizing the nose wheel of an aircraft. A developmentally mature motorized nose wheel concept would be smaller, lighter and more direc
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August 4, 2005 The Boeing Company and Chorus Motors have demonstrated an exploratory technology that could lead to a more efficient way of moving airplanes when they are on the ground at airports. Successful tests in June of an onboard electric motor attached to the nose wheel of a Boeing 767 have shown that it may be a viable way of powering airplanes to move in and around gates, largely eliminating the use of airport tow tugs and jet engines now serving this purpose, as well as reducing emissions.
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