Sorry I was addressing Sterk! Perhaps you should try lav_dump_valve animation, that is useful for dropping things, just animate the gear to drop away and have a special condition set to only show the parts from 0-99, that way it disappears at frame 100.

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   and for this one I can claim direct responsibility.

The infamous "LDV" aka lav_dump_valve, is a part name in FSDS2, used for ad-hoc animations.  deep down it's really another way of using the water rudder part animation, and it needs the corresponding aircraft.cfg contact points section line.

It came about because in the forums, whenever people wanted some feature in an airplane for which the 'state of the art" wasn't there yet, I'd chime in and call for an LDV ... Louis Sinclair (developer of FSDS) and Arnie Lee (of Abacus) have peculiar funny bones...

and to quote Paul Harvey - "and now you know the Rest of the Story!"