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Oh dear, I've offended...
I thought earlier in the thread stuff that high wingloadings AND poor handling were always lurking to catch the unwary had been satifactorily covered.
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Some of my best friends fly tail draggers. MOF, I even have dozen or twenty right around home here, which get exercised when the spirit moves..
Note the mention of the "unwary"... models which have high wingloadings are NOT for the novice! The novice OTOH can be easily swayed into wasting time and money on such things by experts who fail to comprehend the inexperience of the novice, (apparently forgetting they had a learning period also) and willy-nilly won't blink an eye when a novice plunks down his cash for a doomed plane!
Possibly the economic situation overwhelms common sense?
A lightly loaded plane is a good flier.
A highly loaded plane isn't!
When you have little flight experience!
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Tail draggers can ground-loop a LOT, and break props beyond any reasonable expense, when a novice attempts one.
Making the conversion to a tail-dragger is a popular subject on these forums, which says many people notice there's a difference, or have found out the hard way and come looking for real advice.
Glossing over the problem is not real advice, and is in fact ill-advised, for a place where people with genuine concerns about their interests come without expecting to encounter snow-jobs.
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Adrian, your Gee-Bees are noted by those who use them for their lightness. If lightness, and the consequent easing of the handling problems was common, why would it even be noticed, except that it does make problem airplanes into flyable airplanes for an average flier, and a light Gee-Bee is rare in the commercial offerings.
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When locals ask me for information on converting or adding tail wheels to their models, I show them these easy mods in the sketch...
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A careful viewer of the multiple images might even notice the main wheels, which retract, on the Goldberg Tiger 60 are way aft of the location Goldberg places them on their ARF. This plane gets up on the mains and will go straight, forever, because the wheels are properly located for a taildragger. The ARF, though a decent handler on the ground is a ground-looper for the unwary.