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Old 01-12-2013 | 09:02 PM
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Default RE: Toe-in or toe-out on a warbird?

I posed this question to a friend who used to restore warbirds...here is his answer.....

The only one I can tell you for sure is the Corsair, which has none. Toe in doesn't help much when you have the torque from a 13 foot prop driven by a 2000hp engine trying to push you off the runway or a carrier deck. There isn't enough of a contact patch on the tires to make much of a difference. On multi engine airplanes, it easier to maintain direction with either light brake applications of differential engine power.