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Additionally, numerical results indicate that the NLG system exhibits various irregular motion transitions as the time delays increase, including periodic, multiperiodic, and even chaotic motions. These results highlight the profound impact of time delays on the shimmy amplitude, which leads to a detrimental effect on the stability of the NLG system. The analytical findings provide a theoretical insight into the stability design of NLG systems in the field of engineering applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5890\/jand.2027.03.010","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,7]],"date-time":"2026-09-07T17:41:02Z","timestamp":1788802862000},"page":"187-210","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Dynamics of the Aircraft Nose Landing Gear with Two Time Delays"],"prefix":"10.5890","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Xingang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongjun","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"7015","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"[1] Currey, N.S. (1988), Aircraft Landing Gear Design: Principles and Practices, AIAA Education Series. 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