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Will landing gear ever become decoupled from wings?
John Crewe · Vehicle Director

Yes. It's only like that at the moment just because of a pure tech limitation that is quite low down the list of things to solve. Basically, they're all just skinned meshes and attached to the vehicle in one go rather than three separate. However many landing gear you have, in the case of the Caterpillar, they all just get essentially compounded into one object and put on the ship, so they don't go with the bit that comes off. And we do want to fix that because it does look terrible when you lose a wing, or in the Eclipse's case where you see behind the scenes of all the other things that we make landing gear to get around things working. So yes, we want to do it. There are some bits and pieces in the pipeline that may help us with this in the near term, but it's not like, hey, here's a block of time on the schedule, we're going to fix landing gear, it's going to be on this day. We're doing other things in the area. It might fix it, it might not fix it.

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