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Old 10-20-2013, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by abufletcher
If that's the case, the suggestion of adding a bit of rubber hose sounds good. It seems to me that a "free-castering" tail-wheel would only make things worse. And would a fixed tail-wheel be any better than a skid with a rubber pad? I mean, if the goal is to stop sideways motion of the skid, there doesn't really seem to be any purpose for the wheel.
correct, mine is fixed to the rudder. It works very well but doesn't look as scale as the rubber hose technique.
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