Motoring Discussion > Cold tyre pressures Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Bobby Replies: 14

 Cold tyre pressures - Zero
>> >> >>> * The exact name of which escapes me right now.
>> >>
>> >> Schrader valve?
>>
>> Aircraft have some sort of fusible plug in the wheel that allows relatively controlled* decompression
>> of a tyre that has seriously overheated.

Indeed, its for when the wheel is retracted in the wheel well, where a tyre explosion would be terminally serious,
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