User:Marchije/Notes
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CHINE TIRES The “chine” tire is a nose wheel tire designed to deflect water and slush to the side and away from intakes on aftfuselage mounted jet engines. It consists of a flared upper sidewall protrusion that deflects the spray pattern of water or slush displaced by the tire’s contact with the runway. A tire can have a single chine (one sidewall flared) for dual nose wheel tire configurations or double chines (both sidewalls flared) for single nose wheel tire configurations.
http://www.airmichelin.com/pdfs%5CCertification%20Level%202.pdf
CHINES Also called deflectors, chines are circumferential protrusions that are molded into the sidewall of some nose tires that deflect water sideways to help reduce excess water ingestion into the engines.
Some aircraft tires exhibit faster shoulder wear on one shoulder versus the other due to non-tire influences (camber-type wear, etc.). If this condition exists, the tire’s life can be extended by demounting and reversing (“flipping”) the tire on the wheel as long as tire wear limit and the physical condition criteria are satisfied. NOTE: “FLIPPING” MUST NOT BE DONE ON SINGLE CHINE TIRES.
