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Old 05-20-2005 | 02:41 PM
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Default RE: Tricycle Gear vs. Tail Dragger

If you fly off grass, sooner or later you are going to gravitate toward taildraggers. Most groundloop and other handling problems associated with taildraggers occur on paved runways. On grass, taildraggers are much more forgiving.

To me, trikes have to be landed at very close to a perfect 3-point attitude. The nosegears constantly get bent. Besides, the larger the airplane model, the less trikes you have to pick from. If you are at all thinking of going larger, you might as well start getting used to taildraggers.