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    From mirandajrocio@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 11:11:11 2017
    This is not just an idea, this is a fact!!

    Airplanes normally have a nose wheel and main gear. The rudder or pedals control the direction of the nose wheel in ground taxi, take off and landing maneuvers then the direction of the plane! but tail wheel configuration is far away different. Look for
    Beaver (tail wheel plane), DC-3 They land on main gear with a little pitch up, then tail is touching ground with low airspeed... but what happen if you lock the tail wheel?? Black Hawk is an utilitarian helicopter, wheels are not for normal landing ! We
    use that landing when there are a lost of power performance, lost of one engine, or tail rotor emergencies and the tail wheel is locked because is the first wheel touching the ground!!! This is a big difference between this helicopter and tail wheel
    planes.

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  • From clare@snyder.on.ca@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 17:24:38 2017
    On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT), mirandajrocio@gmail.com
    wrote:

    This is not just an idea, this is a fact!!

    Airplanes normally have a nose wheel and main gear. The rudder or pedals control the direction of the nose wheel in ground taxi, take off and landing maneuvers then the direction of the plane! but tail wheel configuration is far away different. Look for
    Beaver (tail wheel plane), DC-3 They land on main gear with a little pitch up, then tail is touching ground with low airspeed... but what happen if you lock the tail wheel?? Black Hawk is an utilitarian helicopter, wheels are not for normal landing ! We
    use that landing when there are a lost of power performance, lost of one engine, or tail rotor emergencies and the tail wheel is locked because is the first wheel touching the ground!!! This is a big difference between this helicopter and tail wheel
    planes.
    REAL plames have tailwheels. Tricycles are for kids - - - -
    The Nosewheel design is a relatively recent phenomenon.

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  • From Ron Wanttaja@21:1/5 to clare@snyder.on.ca on Tue Apr 18 07:39:46 2017
    On 4/17/2017 2:24 PM, clare@snyder.on.ca wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT), mirandajrocio@gmail.com
    wrote:

    This is not just an idea, this is a fact!!

    Airplanes normally have a nose wheel and main gear. The rudder or pedals control the direction of the nose wheel in ground taxi, take off and landing maneuvers then the direction of the plane! but tail wheel configuration is far away different. Look
    for Beaver (tail wheel plane), DC-3 They land on main gear with a little pitch up, then tail is touching ground with low airspeed... but what happen if you lock the tail wheel?? Black Hawk is an utilitarian helicopter, wheels are not for normal landing !
    We use that landing when there are a lost of power performance, lost of one engine, or tail rotor emergencies and the tail wheel is locked because is the first wheel touching the ground!!! This is a big difference between this helicopter and tail wheel
    planes.
    REAL plames have tailwheels. Tricycles are for kids - - - -
    The Nosewheel design is a relatively recent phenomenon.

    Certainly, it only dates back about 106 years....

    http://www.earlyaviators.com/curtissd.jpg

    Ron Wanttaja

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  • From april@21:1/5 to Ron Wanttaja on Tue Apr 18 09:07:15 2017
    On 04/18/2017 07:39 AM, Ron Wanttaja wrote:
    On 4/17/2017 2:24 PM, clare@snyder.on.ca wrote:

    REAL plames have tailwheels. Tricycles are for kids - - - -
    The Nosewheel design is a relatively recent phenomenon.

    Certainly, it only dates back about 106 years....

    http://www.earlyaviators.com/curtissd.jpg

    Does that thing have a vertical fin and stab on the front? Maybe Glenn
    is sitting in it backwards.

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  • From clare@snyder.on.ca@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 16:28:25 2017
    On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 07:39:46 -0700, Ron Wanttaja <ron@wanttaja.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/17/2017 2:24 PM, clare@snyder.on.ca wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT), mirandajrocio@gmail.com
    wrote:

    This is not just an idea, this is a fact!!

    Airplanes normally have a nose wheel and main gear. The rudder or pedals control the direction of the nose wheel in ground taxi, take off and landing maneuvers then the direction of the plane! but tail wheel configuration is far away different. Look
    for Beaver (tail wheel plane), DC-3 They land on main gear with a little pitch up, then tail is touching ground with low airspeed... but what happen if you lock the tail wheel?? Black Hawk is an utilitarian helicopter, wheels are not for normal landing !
    We use that landing when there are a lost of power performance, lost of one engine, or tail rotor emergencies and the tail wheel is locked because is the first wheel touching the ground!!! This is a big difference between this helicopter and tail wheel
    planes.
    REAL plames have tailwheels. Tricycles are for kids - - - -
    The Nosewheel design is a relatively recent phenomenon.

    Certainly, it only dates back about 106 years....

    http://www.earlyaviators.com/curtissd.jpg

    Ron Wanttaja
    He's just flying it backwards - - - -
    Kinda like a Cozy.

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