Question to landing gear experts

[Tony Kambic]

One other comment about the static displays that I wanted to confirm before posting. While some aircraft have strut collars and other aircraft have an internal piece of steel machined to place inside the gear to mimic a pneudralic supported strut, if you look closely at some other aircraft, you will visualize a finely machined collar of stainless steel fiitted around the piston. From a distance it looks just like the piston. Ways to tell are at some angles you can see screw slots to hold it in place and it also may appear to be wider than you would expect the piston. Among aircraft configured like this at Udvar-Hazy are the F8 Crusader and the Lockheed Constellation.

Tony