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Old 02-26-2006, 11:04 PM
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Default RE: First Low-wing Tail dragger

forestroke, I aced physics in college so I'm well aware that "centrifugal force" is a psudo-force, but using it sometimes makes explaining things a little simpler even though it offends the purists.
With TD gear location, you have to deal with sort of a dilemma. Move it forward, ahead of the plane's CG and the plane is less likely to nose over but more likely to ground loop. Move the landing gear closer to the CG and the plane is less likely to ground loop but more likely to nose over. The taildraggers that I own seldom nose over which probably explains why mine like to ground loop, except my Ultrafly Outrage which loves to nose over on landing but never has a groundloop problem, even though it does not even have a tail wheel, or maybe it just is flying before it has a chance to get out of shape. It's so overpowered that it takes off like a flushed quail.